Clowns: They're Not Just for Breakfast Any More!

Matt Cheney has posted an interesting review of The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott. I know Ann thinks highly of this book. I'm afraid I have a problem with clowns in fiction that's similar to my problem with Westerns: I tend not to be drawn to them. It's not so much an antipathy as an indifference. Now, put a clown in a wider context, like a huge circus in which they have a small role--I'm fine. Put them front-and-center...not so much. I fully admit this is a fault in me, but, there it is...It does, however, make me wonder what a reprint antho of clown fiction would like? Are there enough iconic clown stories to make an antho?