When I was a toddler, my family went to the circus. My older brother and I got to sit in the front row. A clown came around, and said if we squeezed his nose it would light up and honk. I was delighted, and couldn’t stop honking his nose. My big brother was petrified and started to cry. I’m sure if he’d had a gun on him, that clown would have been murdered.
The less said about that, the better.
Are the walls real?
I suppose it could be either, but I bet it looks something like this
The Gacy wing is actually just the crawl space.
Here’s the exhibit on clown trophy heads.
My first thought was that old One Step Beyond episode about the clown who kept showing up in reflections behind a killer…who ended up being killed by the clown even though the clown never left the side of the victim of the killer. Duh duh DUH.
Are the luckiest people in the world…
I assumed it was a murder mystery taking place in a Clown Museum. You know, like The Penguin Pool Murder by Stuart Palmer.
Obviously, just going by the numbers it’s a museum dedicated to clowns who murder.
I love the movie made from that book!
Dead Serious. My Mom used to stay at this place all the time. Half-way between her homes in Reno and Vegas, and a conveinient place to stop for the night. Nice people (she claims) and pet-friendly.
i would cringe whenever I drove past it.
Holy crap: The It room! 
Supposedly haunted by clowns.
I once stayed in a small hotel or bed and breakfast (I forget which), in a room called “the Nutcracker Suite”. The room was decorated with literally dozens of those creepy humanoid nutcrackers with the big teeth that you see around Christmas time. Little ones on shelves, medium sized ones, even a life-sized one standing in the corner, staring at you while you slept. Man, I was glad to get out of that place alive.
If you feel uncomfortable, they’d probably send you a night light.
Never saw it; I read the book.
I think you’d like it. It’s on semi-regular rotation on TCM. James Gleason plays the Lieutenant (as per usual) and Edna Mae Oliver was wonderful as Hildegard Withers.
Does the trolley stop there?