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# The Deathbed Clown-o-Meter: Explained
- URL: https://deathbed.ghost.io/the-deathbed-clown-o-meter-explained/
- Published: 2025-09-07T15:12:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T01:18:19.000Z
- Description: Some of the stories published on Deathbed are spooky and funny. Some are scary and gross. Most are in between.
- Author: Deathbed

# The Deathbed Clown-o-Meter: Explained

Some of the stories published on Deathbed are spooky and funny. Some are scary and gross. Most are in between. So how can you, gentle reader, know what to expect from a horror story written by a comedy writer? 

BEHOLD, the Deathbed Clown-o-Meter! 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/04/1c04d6ce-ef24-45f6-b997-94d9b03a417a/content/images/2025/09/DeathbedClownOMeter-Blank-1.png)

SCIENCE! 

Thanks to the idea and artwork of contributing editor Dan "Master of the Macabre" McCoy, Deathbed is proud to open each spine-chilling tale with this deeply scientific, clown-based measurement system that rates each story from zero, meaning "Fun for Halloween"

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/04/1c04d6ce-ef24-45f6-b997-94d9b03a417a/content/images/2025/09/DeathbedClownOMeter-0.png)

to ten, meaning "Dear Lord, does this depravity have no bottom?" 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/04/1c04d6ce-ef24-45f6-b997-94d9b03a417a/content/images/2025/09/DeathbedClownOMeter-10.png)

Is it possible we have already overexplained this?

 Almost certainly! 

Ahhh! Look out!

 Bats! 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/04/1c04d6ce-ef24-45f6-b997-94d9b03a417a/content/images/2025/09/bat-2.png)

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