When Timmy mentions that his father is "real sick" and doesn't want to go back home, the chief of police (Tobin Bell) and his friend Doc (Giancarlo Esposito) volunteer to check on him.
"Bad Wolf Down": In World War II, Lawrence Talby (David A. MacDonald), the captain of a platoon of American soldiers, retreats into a French forest with his surviving men, Sgt.
"The Companion": In 1987, a young boy named Harold (Logan Allan) flees from his brother Billy (Voltaire Colin Council), who happens to be a relentless and strongly abusive bully.
With nothing but a woman's corpse that he names "Gloria" for companionship and under the constant threat of starvation, Richard documents his life story and records his time on the island to keep his mind off his voracious appetite.
Entering the tent, Blake and her family discover that the circus is filled with ravenous zombies that are forced by the sadistic staff to perform various morbid tricks, including killing a lion.
"Public Television Of The Dead": In an homage to both PBS and The Evil Dead, Claudia Aberlan (Marissa Hampton), director of network programming at the WQPS public television station of Pittsburgh (a parody of real life PBS affiliate WQED in the same city), is forced to cancel The Love of Painting with Norm Roberts (a parody of The Joy of Painting) so that Mrs. Bookberry (Coley Campany), the cruel, arrogant, and racist hostess of Mrs. Bookberry's Magical Library (a cross between Reading Rainbow and Lamb Chop's Play-Along) can take the time slot of artist and Vietnam veteran Norm Roberts (Mark Ashworth).
Plagued by guilt, King suffers nightmares and hallucinations where he is viciously mauled and killed by various oversized pests, including a giant rat, an eagle-sized mosquito, and a spider the size of his truck.
Mission Control representative Sandra (Gabrielle Byndloss) contacts the Ocula to tell the astronauts that the object which had nearly collided with them earlier was actually a probe sent by an alien race known as the Gorangi.
"Pipe Screams": Victoria Smoot (Barbara Crampton), an arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist landlady, hires down-on-his-luck plumber Linus Carruthers (Eric Edelstein) to inspect the plumbing of the most derelict apartment building she owns after receiving numerous complaints on the matter.
"Within the Walls of Madness": Graduate student Zeller (Drew Matthews), currently incarcerated in a detention hall, describes to his appointed attorney Tara Cartwright (Brittany L. Smith) the set of circumstances that led to his arrest.
"Night of the Living Late Show": Simon Sherman (Justin Long), an inventor in an unstable marriage, creates the Immersopod, a unique virtual reality machine outfitted with hundreds of cameras that acts as a home theater, allowing people to immerse themselves into and interact with the setting, plot, and characters of any movie they want.
He uses the Immersopod to escape his rocky marriage to his wealthy wife Renee (D'Arcy Carden), by regularly inserting himself into his favorite movie Horror Express where he giddily interacts with the film's characters Alexander Saxton and Dr. Wells (Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in archive footage) and begins an affair with the attractive Countess Petrovski (Hannah Fierman), who he's had a crush on ever since he was a child.
She also uses a pair of pruning shears to cut off Simon's thumb and ignores his pleas to turn off the Immersopod, leaving him unable to exit the simulation as the film's zombies move in to devour him.
"Mums": Farm boy Jack (Brayden Benson) is offered by his garden-loving, recovering alcoholic mom Bloom (Erin Beute) to join her on a trip to visit his "mee-maw".
"Queen Bee": Trinice (Olivia Hawthorne), Deborah (Hannah Kepple), and Carlos (Nico Gomez) are huge fans of famous pop star Regina (Kaelynn Harris).
"Familiar": Following a night of drunken partying, aspiring lawyer Jackson (King Bach) and his ditzy, sculptor girlfriend Fawn (Hannah Fierman) visit a mysterious fortune-teller named Boone (Keith Arthur Bolden).
The next day while at work, Jackson receives a blank fax message, discovers that the contents of his desk have been meticulously stacked while he wasn't looking, and nearly has a pair of dark, clawed hands reach out at him from a bathroom stall.
While most of said artwork has since been catalogued and become sought-after by collectors worldwide, Dr. Mai Sato (Gina Hiraizumi) of the Ōta Museum of Art recently come into the possession of a long lost Tsuburaya piece, originally hidden in the basement of a monastery at the base of Mount Fuji.
Despite being a model prisoner during his incarceration one year later, he is denied parole after it is mentioned that he was in an altercation with fellow inmate "Polish Frank" Kowalski (Tony Demil), whom he apparently vowed to "get even" with.
A more easy-going and sympathetic guard named Willis (Glenn Magee) checks in with Elmer and delivers some mail to him, including an anonymous letter praising him for his practices and a parchment scroll from a library in Cairo.
While feeding his spiders, Elmer discovers that the large one hiding behind the wall is actually a form of Sekhmet: Egyptian "Mistress of Dread" and that the scroll is the incantation for a sort of ritual involving her.
"Stranger Sings": Longtime divorcee and gynecologist Barry (Chris Mayers) meets the kindly Sara (Suehyla El-Attar) at a coffee shop and offers to accompany her on her walk home, despite nearly bungling his opportunity to ask her out.
In this dystopian future, Meter Readers, a select group of people with natural immunity to the contagion, travel the world in the hopes of either curing or eliminating the infected, the latter of which can only be done by decapitating them and incinerating their severed heads in the special garbage trucks that arrived.
While rummaging through a drawer of his grandfather's old keepsakes, Tim discovers the key to a strange armoire Joseph had acquired in Germany while serving in World War II; the result of raiding a collection of valuables stolen by the Nazis.
Marnie's father Mayor Wrightson (voiced by Mark Hamill) plans to open the capsule before the townspeople during a festival to be held on the 200th anniversary of the day the population disappeared.
He meets and attempts to disperse a vigilante lynch mob consisting of Joe Donovan (Bryan Brendle), the truck driver Carl Jenson (J.R. Rodriguez), Farmer Jeremy (Rey Hernandez), and other civilians who are after Cliven Ridgeway (Josh Mikel), a sociopathic criminal, vandal, rapist, and murderer who has wronged the townsfolk in numerous horrible ways.
"Grieving Process": Richard (Sachin Sahel) is a chef who has prepared a meal for his wife April (Rachel Drance) whose younger sister Jean (MaeMae Renfrow) refers to her as a "boss lady".
After a nightmare involving a vampire hunter (Donavon Stinson), Chuck checks up on Anna as their caskets are en route to their new location of Mapleton, Ontario by Fly By Night Movers.
As Alex is wounded during the conflict, Anna assumes her monstrous humanoid vampire bat form (performed by Kelsey Andries) to kill the hunters and bite Doug in the neck.
After a call from someone who suggests that she should sell the books at Booktime online, she is visited by her stingy landlord Mr. Cooper (Peter New) who informs her about the new lease that will go into action next week in doubled form.