by Alex X
For his birthday, Adam receives a clown puppet and a chilling note: Never anger it. He assumes it is nothing more than a cruel joke from his childhood friend and laughs it off. Then the puppet starts appearing in places it should not be. What begins as an unsettling mystery soon turns into a nightmare as the clown begins targeting him and the people he loves. No one is safe. The clown is always watching. And it never forgets a grudge.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 22 Oct 2026, 17:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 22 Oct 2026, 17:08 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 21% of similar stories
not enough data yet
needs about a week of observations
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
