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Going West: True Crime
The hosts referenced the book when discussing how horror movies have conditioned fear of clowns, noting that the author’s work contributed to that perception. In a later episode they used the title as a comparison for a suspect’s unsettling drawings, cautioning that such fictional horror shouldn’t be taken as evidence of real violence. Overall, the book was mentioned only as a cultural touchstone rather than being recommended.
Episode: Marlene Warren // 418
The podcast hosts mentioned that clowns were represented in a very scary way in horror movies, like "IT." They suggest that "IT" may have conditioned people to associate clowns with fear.
Like we're talking about like IT.
It's like that kind of made people develop this fear of clowns.
So it's like, it's like that kind of made people develop this fear of clowns.
So true. And they were like conditioned into interfering them.
It's Stephen King's fault.
Episode: Peggy Hettrick // 143
The podcasters mentioned Stephen King's book 'It' in the context of the suspect's drawings, stating that Tim's drawings were similar to the horror content found in King's books, but that it was a stretch to claim Tim was a murderer based on them.
It's in books and you don't look at Stephen King and say this guy is definitely a murderer, right?
