The Midnight Game's Dark Secret

My neighbor vanished after trying the Midnight Game. Found his journal with exact instructions.

Light a candle at midnight, write your name on paper, place it outside

your door with the candle on top. Knock twenty two times, then open the door,

blow out the candle, relight it immediately. Now you're playing. Walk through your dark house until

three thirty three. If the candle flickers, he's close. If it goes out, you have ten seconds

to relight it or he finds you. My neighbor's last entry said the candle died in his bathroom.

The walls started breathing. Something whispered his name backwards. They found his house

empty, candle melted into the floorboards. Would you risk it for the truth about