clown

Her foam-lined sneakers slide off to reveal black knitted socks adorned with illustrations of killer clowns.

“To the Incorrigible children, these exotic beasts must have been as strange and comical looking as a person in a clown costume would be to the average child.”

Gainer credits his junior-high-school guidance counselor for urging him to apply to Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design, after she saw his portfolio, which included paintings of automobiles and clowns.

Apart from the clown, there’s a whole mythology that has yet to be connected.

Last year, for instance, was a “hell hotel,” with rooms themed to demented clowns or terror at sea.