That night, the two comedians show up at the protagonist’s house. He is informed by a friend that the comedians have been using their spirits/astral projections to tickle people to make them laugh, hence the reaction of the audience (they were also the murderers of the comedian who died of laughter: they tickled him to death). The protagonist then leaves with a friend to see a comedy show, and are disappointed to see that the comedians weren’t funny at all.

Apparently, he had laughed himself to death, which scares the protagonist. The second story is “Ghosts of Prime Time.” The story begins with an announcement: the body of a rising comedian was found lifeless. The story ends with the sky raining blood. Her classmate’s decapitated head then turns into a bat and flies into the sky with the others. She also began hearing a voice, and upon further examination, found that her classmate’s head was still alive: the bats have been giving it blood. She is taken to the hospital, and after being released, she finds that many bats are trying to break into her house. When his corpse was examined, it was discovered that his head was missing. In a tragic accident, he was struck and killed by a train. Shocked, she escapes from the house and is followed by her classmate. He reveals to her that without him, she would’ve died of malnutrition: he had been sending his bats to her house to feed her his blood to keep her alive. Horrified, she knocks it to the ground, and he becomes confused, asking her why she would harm the bat, seeing that it wanted to help her.

One of them flies towards her and tries to feed her blood. Taking her to his backyard, he reveals that his pets are a whole colony of bats.

One day, the classmate who asked her about her health asked her to follow him to where he lived. She starts having nightmares of a large vampiric face visiting her at night. One of her classmates approaches her and lets her know he is concerned about her health, and she answers that she is fine. While she did lose weight, her health also deteriorated due to her lack of consumption of food. Angry, she decides to lose weight to show her ex that he made a mistake leaving her. The first story, “Bloodsucking Darkness,” involves a girl who had recently broken up with her boyfriend.

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