Short Horror Stories~

The Laughing Clown

" In the age 1700's, a the clown chased the children, The parents thought t'was all in good fun and the meadows of London grew Brighter "  They were wrong; at first it started out innocent, the children would run while the clown would chase them playfully while the parents watched and smiled, happy that there kids were having a blast. But soon things started to occur, children started to come home crying saying that the clown had hurt them, others would come home with deep slashes in there backs which had looked similar to claw marks claiming that the clown did it, some on the other hand; some didn't come back to there parents at all. At first the parents didn't want to believe it; they didn't want to believe that such a monster did this to their children. Soon the shock was replaced with rage and when the police of London forbade any justice for the missing and injured children, the rage in the parent's hearts grew tremendously and On the night of December 25, 1706 the parents took justice into there own hands and set fire to the Circus in which the monstrous clown dwelled. If you were there on that night; though it was the holiest of nights the screams and cries of the workers and performers the animals and all that t'was around would've made it seem like you were in hell. The parents Grinned and Sneered as they watched and heard them  burn alive; Once the fire had finally died after what seemed to be an eternity; the parents celebrated as they journeyed there way back to there houses not knowing that all of the innocent lives that they had deceased because of there rash actions would come for them one day........ In 1760, 54 years after the circus burned to the ground by seemingly " unknown circumstances ". There has been a string of murders but an unknown killer the weird thing was all of these victims had lost there children at the same time in the exact same place it's a strange thing, when word got out of the killings people started to fret scared for there lives; a year later in 1761 the townspeople fretted no more going on with there lives thinking that the killer had moved on, then one day someone reported that they're child had been kidnapped, the young child was a girl named Abigail only who had only been aged to 14 and that was only the first case; soon children aged from 10-14 disappeared left and right without a trace, police were baffled parents and children were terrfied, locking their doors and windows sitting silently in there rooms wondering who would disappear next. Everytime a new child disappeared a child who had disappeared long ago would turn up dead gruesomly mutilated and in there eyes, if they still had them would show a look of pure terror in them even after being dead for so long. Police tried eveything despratly trying to end this all. Sometimes but very rarely, the kidnapper would leave behind some kind of hint as to who he might be and why he was doing this, sometimes it would be a part of a clown outfit, other times it would be an artical about the circus that burned down so long ago, and the rarest and most informative would be the admitts one only ticket to the burned down circus. when the people found out about the clues the remainder of the parents of the children that were lost long ago they froze not wanting to believe it at first, not wanting to believe that the clown has come back; however sadly they were right day by day another parent was mourning some many children would no longer make a sound, village by village the children disappeared by now chances that we could be lurking near good luck to you all be careful take care just remember that the clown from centeries ago maybe right behind you........