The Clowns are the antagonists of the book The Midnight Clowns and are circus clowns, but are actually much more evil: their seemingly friendly natures are a disguise; they lure children into their circus, entertain them with their routines, then they give them a potion which will imprison them and brainwash them into being mindless slaves, or "Minims" as the Clowns call them. The Clowns keep a horde of brainwashed, enslaved children in this way, and the children will only be freed if the Clowns are dead. The Clowns sleep in coffins during the day and one day one Minim opened the coffin daringly, but the Clowns swarmed on him and dragged him inside a caravan to eat him. The Clowns are also stalkers, only appearing at night, and they follow their victims home - the Minims do so too, but onl