Hold up By: K.S
This is a complete Malaysian silent horror comic titled “Hold Up” by K.S. (from the Dark Box / SilentHorrorCom series). It’s a tragic ghost/yandere love story told almost entirely without dialogue, relying on visuals and implication. Here is what actually happens, panel by panel (major spoilers, obviously):
1. A single mother is asleep. Above her head floats the “Dark Box” logo, implying this story will end badly.
2. Her young son (wearing a school uniform and beret) is late coming home from a school camping trip. He rushes into the room; she wakes up in panic because he’s extremely late.
3. She grabs and scolds him for worrying her.
4. Close-up of the boy looking guilty/sad.
5. That night, while she sleeps, the boy sneaks into bed with her and cuddles her, smiling innocently. She smiles in her sleep (still alive at this point).
6. Next morning the boy happily leaves for school again, running to catch the school bus.
7. The mother, still in bed, tries to get up but can’t. She’s pale, sweating, and looks sick.
8. She desperately reaches for her son as he leaves without noticing anything wrong.
9. Later, neighbors/friends find her dead in bed, covered in bruises around the neck and arms. The boy stands innocently beside the bed while adults mourn.
10. Title card: “Hold Up” – the twist is revealed in the title itself.
11–12. Newspaper headline: the entire school bus (32 students) was in a fatal accident and all children died. Cut to a cute zombie mascot saying “LOVE WILL NEVER DIE” – END.
The reveal:
The boy actually died in the bus crash (along with all his classmates) before the story even starts. What came home that night was his spirit/ghost.
Out of obsessive love and separation anxiety (“Mama, hold me tight, don’t ever let me go”), he hugged his mother so hard and for so long, refusing to leave for the afterlife, that he accidentally crushed/strangled her to death in her sleep. Every time he “held” her, he was killing her a little more.
She spent her last moments trying to warn him or stop him, but he was already dead and didn’t understand he was hurting her.
That’s why:
– He’s always sweaty and pale (corpse traits).
– She gets weaker and more bruised each time he hugs her.
– He keeps rushing home from “school” even though school no longer exists.
– The ghost happily keeps coming back to cuddle his now-dead mother every night.
Classic Dark Box/SilentHorror tragic twist: a child’s pure love becomes lethal because he doesn’t realize he’s already dead. The title “Hold Up” is a dark pun — he literally “held her up” (hugged her) to death.