Patrick T. McGowan

In the spring of 2005, an old mother living in Hanoi receives a diary. The diary carriers the notes of a young woman doctor who worked at a national liberation front hospital for two years starting in 1968 until her death. The diary was first discovered by a US militairy officer, who kept it for 35 years.

An artist with coulrophobia ("fear of clowns") is stalked by a murderous clown resembling one of the ones she paints.