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My father loved playing dominoes. There weren't many entertainment options when he was growing up, especially since technology wasn't as advanced back then, and the internet hadn't yet captured the hearts and minds of young people.
A chilling story about the Domino Man, a deadly creature summoned through a domino ritual, blending childhood memories with terrifying supernatural events.
Key Takeaways
- The Domino Man legend is a cautionary tale about respecting supernatural rituals.
- Childhood games and stories can harbor dark secrets and unexpected dangers.
- Skepticism does not protect from the consequences of engaging with unknown forces.
- Strict adherence to ritual rules is crucial in supernatural folklore to avoid fatal outcomes.
- The story highlights the blend of nostalgia and horror to create a compelling narrative.
What the video covers
- The narrator recounts his father's love for dominoes and childhood memories involving the game.
- The father moved to the countryside at 15 and learned about a local legend called the Domino Man.
- The Domino Man is summoned through a ritual involving arranging domino tiles in a rose pattern and playing a dangerous game at midnight.
- The rules of the game are strict, and failure results in death according to the legend.
- The father and his friends performed the ritual, leading to a terrifying experience and the disappearance of one friend.
- The narrator discovers his father's diaries after his death, revealing the dark secret of the Domino Man.
- The narrator and his friends later attempt the ritual themselves during a birthday party, despite skepticism.
- The game quickly turns frightening as supernatural events unfold, causing panic and danger among the players.
- The Domino Man attacks the group, leading to injuries and fear of death.
- The story blends nostalgic childhood elements with horror, exploring themes of belief, fear, and the supernatural.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to Father's Love of Dominoes
- 02:30Discovery of the Domino Man Legend
- 03:54Ritual Instructions and Rules
- 05:29Consequences of Losing the Game
- 06:52Childhood Attempts to Summon Spirits
- 08:44Planning the Domino Man Game with Friends
- 10:39The Game Begins and Supernatural Events
- 14:34The Domino Man Attacks
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It's not that he only played dominoes. Of course not. There were cards, checkers, chess, other board games, books, and a yard full of children ready to organize any games and competitions. But for some reason, dominoes were especially dear to him.
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He couldn't explain it; he just liked it. He could sit for hours, playing game after game with his older brother or father. Sometimes he'd simply line up dominoes in a long row and set off a chain reaction. When he knocked over
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the first tile, one after another the dominoes would fall on top of each other, forming the patterns my father had created, while he watched, fascinated. One summer, when he was 15, my father moved to the countryside to live with his aunt. There, he met some
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friends his age, and they casually noticed a box of dominoes among my father's things. That's when he learned something he later deeply regretted. I think he did. Actually, I don't know for sure, because my father never told me about this ritual. I found out
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myself. And it happened after Dad was already dead. We were going through a box of his things. There were a lot of games from Dad's childhood, including dominoes. This didn't come as a surprise to me, because my mother told
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me how much he loved this game. And Dad himself would talk about it from time to time. He was the one who taught me how to play this game, but I didn't find it appealing. I admit, I'm more
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drawn to nerding out on video games, killing zombies in Resident Evil, killing aliens in Half-Life, or just playing Tanki. Board games aren't my thing. Even playing Durak (card game) is boring, and I never learned how to play poker or Monopoly. Among the
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things, I found my father's diaries. He'd been keeping them since he was 15. Of course, I wanted to read them. I loved my father very much and longed to know more about his youth, since asking was now impossible. And then I learned
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his story, his huge, terrible secret. At 15, he came to the village and learned of a creature—a monster from legend. They called him the Domino Man.
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I chuckled. The name seemed ridiculous. I remembered various creatures from creepypasta, like Slenderman or Drowned Ben. The Domino Man was summoned with dominoes in a rather banal and predictable way. This monster was not as well-known and popular as Bloody
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Mary or the Queen of Spades. Only a select few knew about the Domino Man.
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Those who had not yet forgotten, those who had been told. In some places, more was known about him, in others, less.
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My father did not know until he arrived in the village. He became intrigued by this story. Having gathered a circle of friends, my father performed a ritual recorded in the pages of his diary. "Only one day left until we play," he
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wrote in his diary. I carefully read the instructions Vladik gave me. He said that deviating from the instructions was absolutely forbidden, otherwise the ritual would fail. You need to arrange the Domino tiles in a special shape, resembling a rose. Then
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say, "Domino Man, come and play with us exactly three times." Before doing this, you need to set up the domino tiles vertically. There are five in each room of the house. They must stand on a hard, secure surface. The sight of them
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falling brings the Domino Man closer to victory. It is forbidden to arrange the tiles so that they cannot fall. It is also forbidden to place them too close to each other. Once the game begins, you can only move within the boundaries
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of the house. Going beyond its boundaries means losing. You cannot stay in one room for more than an hour.
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The game begins at midnight and ends at dawn. The player who flips over the tiles in the room or runs away loses.
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If all the tiles are flipped, all players lose. If the main rose pattern breaks, all players also lose. It's forbidden to turn on the lights. That also means losing. Only the candles should be lit. If the game is played
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according to the rules, all the dominoes and the rose remain intact, then the game will be considered a success, and the Domino Man will leave.
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But if you lose, Vladik said that the Domino Man punishes losers with death. None of us fully believes in this game or the Domino Man, much less that this stupid game is capable of killing someone. We want to play for fun, to
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test the game, to be scared, and then laugh together at this stupidity. That's where Father's entry ended. The next one began in a very crooked, ragged handwriting, unlike his usual.
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We did it. We summoned the Domino Man. Me, Vladik, Grisha, Zhenya, and Marina. Vladik ran away from home during the game and went missing. They've been looking for him for a week. I'm very scared. Very scared. Why did we play?
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Why did we do this? I will never do this again. He exists. He really does punish. I am very scared. Very scared.
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Please help. My father's next entry was made a full six months after all this.
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He wrote about his daily routine at his part-time job. The handwriting is even again, and there is not a single mention of playing with the Domino Man.
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It is as if this topic has now become taboo, even for writing. I was incredibly intrigued by this story.
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When I was 8 years old, I tried to summon Bloody Mary, stood in front of the bathroom mirror, and said her name over and over again, but no one came. My friends and I scared each other a little. A month later, the
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failed attempt was forgotten. Then I realized that many famous horror stories are worthless. Attempts to summon Slenderman and Jeff the Killer also failed. I realized that all this was nonsense, designed to scare impressionable teenagers. But now the story of the Domino Man caused a
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terrible tremor in me. I reread my father's diary, his instructions, over and over again, running through the lines, quietly finishing out loud: "Domino Man, come and play with us." But only silence answered me.
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Understandable, since I had done almost nothing to start the game yet. The story of the Domino Man came back to me again at the country house, when we were celebrating my classmate Denis's birthday. His parents allowed him to
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bring friends here for the night, and we were left completely alone. Teenagers without adults, and the whole house to ourselves. Me, Denis, Vova, Marta, Tanya, and Vsevod. We drank and chatted cheerfully, and my father's diaries came to mind. And take off the
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story of the ritual, which I knew by heart. I told my friends about it. "Holy, that's cool," Denis lit up.
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"Let's try it. Does anyone here have that damn domino set?" "I do," I replied. "Funny." There was a box of dominoes in my backpack. I put it there after reading my father's story and hadn't taken it out for years, as if I'd been
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waiting for the right opportunity, and it had finally arrived. "Are you ready?" "Yes," Marta chuckled. "Yeah, I forgot to put it out. It's been in my backpack for a long time," I chuckled awkwardly.
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"Okay, let's play. Why not?" she smiled. "Is this all so foreign?" Vova snorted skeptically. "Maybe we should just get some more beer? What a bore you are!" Tanya, his girlfriend, scolded him. I'm all for the game, at
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least something fun to do in the evening. I took out the box. We need to start by midnight. I remembered the rules perfectly. You need to turn off all the lights and close the candles.
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"Stupid rules," Vova grumbled. He clearly didn't like the idea. "Shut up," the all-powerful one told him. What's next? I sighed, trying to concentrate on not missing any of the rules of the game. Five dominoes need to be placed
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vertically in each room, so that they are far from each other. How many rooms are there? Five, Denis answered. So we need 25 tiles in total for all the rooms. How many are in the pack? Tanya asked. I looked at the pack. 32 pieces.
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That should be enough. 25 for the rooms and anothe...
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and putting it on the table. I made a pattern on it, like the one Dad drew in his diary. It's good that Denich doesn't have 10, otherwise we would have lost, I added. We all bustled about. Only Vova sipped his beer,
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frowning at us." You're kidding! "he snorted. They'd have been better off playing spin the bottle or strip cards.
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We turned off all the lights, lit candles, and set out the dice in the rooms." One last thing. We need to summon him, "I said, looking at my wristwatch. Midnight was inexorably approaching. We had to get started quickly. Tanya forcibly brought Vova to
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us. He rolled his eyes, but stopped complaining for a while. On the count of three, we all say together:" Domino Man, come play with us. "I became extremely serious. Denis, Seva, and the girls also tensed up, sensing a strange
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, crucial moment. The game was approaching." Okay, "I concluded. On the count of three. 1 2 3. And we all said in unison:" Domino Man, come play with us. "And then we fell silent. It seemed like the room had gotten colder.
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Even though all the windows were closed . I felt something strange. A strange presence. It seemed like everyone sensed it. I was sure if there had been a Ouija board in front of us right now, it would have shaken and the arrow
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would have started pointing to letters. Instead, there was only a pattern of dominoes. I remembered the words in my father's diary. If the main rose pattern breaks, all players lose.
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Important rule, I said, finally breaking the silence, simultaneously starting the timer on the clock. You can't stay in one room for longer than an hour. We'll lose. So we need to move from room to room periodically, Martha said. More often. The silence that
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reigned in the house seemed deathly. Even our voices couldn't drown it out. It was a strange silence. Not alive, not natural. The candle flame flickered barely perceptibly. I looked around. In the room, one domino plate stood on a
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shelf. Another one was on the table, a third on the windowsill, a fourth on a small coffee table, a fifth on the arm of the sofa." What happens if the record falls on its own? "Tanya asked me, noticing my gaze darting from
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record to record." No problem, it's not that bad. Only if all 25 records don't fall on their own. And what if I'm the one who makes the record fall? "the girl continued." Then you lose. "I swallowed. It was creepy. Nonsense." Oh
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, my God, "Vova snorted. He was back at it." And what do we do now? "Seva asked ." What, what should we play? "Denis answered." The domino man is already here, and he's waiting. "Denis said in a playfully creepy tone and pinched his
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ear." Then I hope he eats you first, you idiot, "Seva rolled his eyes. The atmosphere eased a bit. We dispersed. I closed my eyes and listened. My friends were speaking in half-whispers, as if afraid to raise their voices. I froze
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and suddenly heard something that made me tense. Footsteps came from the floor below. One step, two, three, four. So heavy, as if something with heavy metal legs was walking. Did you hear that? I opened my eyes. My friends looked in my
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direction." What are you even talking about? "Seva asked, perplexed." I didn't hear anything, "Denis said.
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Marta tensed, looking at me. I saw her turn a little pale. I thought I heard footsteps on the first floor." Looks like our little guy has already taken a , "Denis chuckled." The domino man has entered your head. Offer him a beer
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, "Vova joked sarcastically." you, "I snorted. And then the sound was heard above our heads on the floor above. It was so distinct that everyone heard it. Tanya, I, Seva, Denis, Vova, Marta looked up. I felt my heart start
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beating faster. What could be walking on the first floor just now and then suddenly end up on the third?" What are you doing, like little kids! Something just creaked, "Vova said nervously." I'll go have a smoke. "He stood up.
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Tanya grabbed his hand." He's crazy. You can't leave the house. I don't give a damn about this stupid game for kids in diapers, "Vova grumbled and rudely pulled his hand away, striding towards the exit of the room." Stop, Vova! "I
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jumped up from the chair and ran after him, but Vova pushed me away. Are you stupid? They've completely gone crazy over their own man in dominoes. He didn't let me do anything and slipped out the front door. I didn't dare go
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after him, I just peeked through the crack and saw Vova descending the steps , walking along the path, stopping under a tree in front of the house, and crouching. Maybe nothing would happen to him? Maybe it was all just a silly
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story? My heart was pounding, screaming that the Domino Man existed and was approaching. I felt a chill on the back of my neck. Something was breathing down my neck. The eerie breath was icy.
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I froze, afraid to move, and I could already hear the sound clearly. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. His breathing was rapid, like shortness of breath, so unnaturally cold, as if the skin beneath it would freeze. I could no longer watch Vova. Trembling, I
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followed the monster's breathing behind me. You know, I used to think that if I found myself in a situation like this, I'd get scared, scream, and run. But that turned out to be a lie. Fear shackled me. My hands were shaking, the
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world was swimming before my eyes, my throat and tongue were at a loss. I couldn't do anything, as if I'd been injected with a paralytic. I woke up from this horror already on the floor.
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I was lying down. My gaze was fixed on the ceiling. When I fell, why don't I remember it? Here I am, standing in front of the door, looking through the crack, feeling someone else's breath, and a second later, a memory lapse. And
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now I'm lying in front of the door, contemplating a large glass chandelier. The monster is no longer nearby. I can't hear its breath. It's gone. Or maybe it wasn't there at all? Maybe it's all my overactive imagination? I
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don't know. I got up, out of inertia, and rushed to the door to look through the crack. Vova was no longer in front of the house. It was empty under the tree. He was gone. Maybe he left? No, I
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knew he hadn't left. They took him. I stepped back and looked around. The dominoes stood untouched in various parts of the living room. Good. The candles burned, dimly illuminating the room. I suddenly heard footsteps and tensed. Then I exhaled, seeing who was
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approaching. It was a worried Tanya. Everything is fine, we heard the rumble . Where is Vova? Don't go after him. I said as harshly and sternly as I could.
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Tanya's eyes widened. Where is he? He's fine. He was smoking, and then he left.
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Gone. Her frown deepened. Where did he go? There's nowhere to go here. Forests , residential buildings all around.
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There's not even a hotel nearby. Tanya was right. We have nowhere to go here.
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It's unlikely that Vova would have forced his way into someone else's house. And buses definitely don't run here at this time of day. And he left without his things. At least he had money with him. I pushed these thoughts
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aside, because another thought took their place. A single, true one. Vova hadn't gone anywhere. He took him. And Vova is no longer with us. Of course, I didn't tell this to the frightened Tanya. The main thing now was not to
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let her repeat Vova's mistake. Tanya, let's go back. Come on. It's already been half an hour. We should all go to another room, the guys are still in Denis's bedroom. She took a more responsible approach to the game. I
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nodded. You're right. You and I changed the location, but the others didn't. And they have half an hour left to do it. It's better to move to another room early. I tried to speak calmly. The memory of the icy breath burning my
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neck still surfaced in my mind. The place where the creature breathed was still very cold. I touched it with my fingers, rubbed the skin, but it didn't warm up. The guys and I went into another room, where there were bunk
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beds and lots of children's toys. When I entered, I immediately noticed that one of the dowels was lying horizontally." It turned over, it seems , "said Marta." Apparently, "I said." It's okay, it's just one, and we didn't turn it over. Vovan's been gone for a
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long time, "Seva said. Where the hell could he have gone? I saw Tanya turn pale and shake more violently at his words. I think she wants to go for a walk until dawn, so she doesn't have to play. I lied. In fact, that was the
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last thing I could suggest right now. We sat down on the sofa. Marta whispered to her, trying to calm her down. The curtains fluttered. I looked at them. It was strange, because the windows and doors were closed. Where
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was that draft coming from? And then there was scratching at the window. We all froze and fell silent, listening to the claws scraping at the glass. What the hell? Denis was the first to come out of his stupor. He ran to the window
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, opened the curtain, and screamed sharply, as if scalded. We all perked up. Denis started backing away. His face was pale as flour, and his pupils had narrowed to tiny dots. He was terribly scared." Denis, Denis, what's there? "I asked, trying to grab his
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T-shirt." Don't touch me! Nobody touch me, "he screamed, pulling away and tripping. Denis fell right onto the table. It wobbled, and another domino, standing right on the table, toppled over. A soft thud seemed to echo off the walls. We all stared at the
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frightened Denis and the fallen plate. Bad. Very bad. Dan, Dan, listen, don't leave us. I tried to pull myself together. Please, don't leave us.
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Everything will be fine if you stay close. Dan looked at me for about five seconds with glassy eyes. Then his nose started bleeding." Oh,! "-I said, delivering it and handing it to him.
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And then we heard it. The sound of footsteps was loud, distinct, completely real, like heavy metal boots knocking on the parquet floor. The sound was getting closer. It was coming in our direction. I exchanged glances with the guys. All the people, Marta
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and Tanya, were trembling and backing away. Denis froze, pressing a handkerchief to his bleeding nose. The footsteps were getting closer. It was getting even louder. I couldn’t breathe from horror. My head was spinning again. A heavy hand slammed
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the door. It opened with a slam. A two-meter-tall creature, resembling a man, in a black cloak entered. Instead of a face, we saw dark dents, dots on white skin. Five dots, one of which was in the center. Exactly the same mark as
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on a domino. Black hands with long claws. An unnaturally long body. And a mouth, I immediately saw in it an awful lot of sharp fangs, Capable of tearing you apart in a second. I rushed toward Denis, but the creature grunted and
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threw me back with a powerful paw. I slammed back into the window and groaned in pain, as if an electric shock had run down my spine. The domino man pounced on Denis, piercing him with teeth and claws. Blood sprayed
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everywhere. Denis screamed hysterically . The creature quickly strangled his scream. Denis's tense arms suddenly went limp. The creature was gnawing at his soft, hot throat. Blood in a pool spread across the table beneath him. I heard it gurgling. Scarlet splashes
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covered the entire room. We all saw it, stood and watched, unable to move. And when the realization of what was happening finally hit us, we broke into a run, still screaming in horror.
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Sevolad ran first, followed by Marta and Tanya." We need to get out of here, we need to run away, "Tanya screamed and rushed to the front door. But I grabbed her hand, stopping her." You can't. It will kill you if you go out.
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"It will kill everyone anyway," Tanya screamed in tears. She was hysterical. "It won't kill. I don't know where I found so much strength and self-control . Is it because I initially believed in the domino man when I first read the
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diary? Is it because I was prepared for all of this?" Tanya won't kill, "I repeated, hugging her. Marta and Seva came up to us. They looked at me like a leader, like a savior. We have to play by the rules until dawn, and then we'll
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survive. She was clinging, clutching my shirt. Gradually, she felt a little better. We sat in the living room. The shivers left our bodies. It became very cold. Even though we were all hot before the game. It was as if we were
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in a morgue, where they maintain a perpetually low temperature. Now we need to go to the room where Denis is left," I began quietly. "No way!" Tanya screamed hysterically. "Please, don't," Marta said more calmly, grabbing my hand. "We have to," I breathed heavily,
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anxiously. "We have to, we have to see if all the dominoes have fallen over.
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We have to know how many are still standing." When that creature was at work there, many of the dominoes had fallen over. I seemed to freeze on this sentence, but I forced myself to continue, because this is our life. If
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they all fall over, we die. There are 25 of them, said Seva. And seven in the rosette. The rosette is the most important thing. If it falls over, we are done for too, "I said. Together, we walked through the house and discovered
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that seven dominoes had fallen so far. There were 18 standing ones left and a whole rosette. It had to be treated especially carefully, so we decided not to stay in the room where it stood, because we could accidentally knock it
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over in a panic. Now we sat in the kitchen. It was scary. Terribly scary.
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We heard footsteps again. He was patrolling the third floor." He has no right to attack us if we haven't broken the rules, "Martha asked." He doesn't, "I muttered. I must have been imagining Dan lying on the table. We had to see
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his battered body again. God, I couldn't believe it. Tanya wanted to call the police, but I slapped her hand . You can't. If the game goes wrong, she'll kill us all, and I doubt the cops will stop him. I touched the back
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of my neck. It felt like a prickly crust of ice had frozen over it. I winced, stared at the wall, and tried to figure out what to do next. I still had 40 minutes left in the kitchen.
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Then I needed to change rooms. Dawn was still a long way off. Vova and Denis were gone. Tanya sat down across from me, twirling the pepper shaker in her hands. She froze, withdrawn into herself. Silence fell over the kitchen.
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Martha buried her nose in my T-shirt and closed her eyes. I cocked my head, looking at the floor. I saw a shadow playing strangely across the ground. At first, I didn't understand what it was, then it dawned on me. It was a hand,
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like a pure paw. It was protruding from the shadow on the wall and moving. I looked up and saw a five and dots on white skin. I froze, but my pulse raced . Behind Tanya, in the shadows, stood
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he, the Domino Man. A black cloak, like a death slayer, long, pure paws, a face as if woven from white linen on which black dots had been painted, and a mouth, a grinning, bloody maw with thousands of teeth. Only I saw him.
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Marta still had her eyes closed, and Seva looked at his feet. Tanya couldn't see the Domino Man, because he was standing behind her, silent as a shadow . What should I do? Warn Tanya? Scream, remain silent, run? I held my breath,
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my eyes following the monster's movements. It raised a cactus-like paw towards the shatan from behind, and the claw slashed across her flesh like a knife through butter. The domino man scratched her neck deeply. I saw Tanya's eyes widen at that moment. It
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seemed she would explode with horror. Tanya jerked over her shoulder and came face to face with the domino man. If you could call that creature's face a face. A hysterical girlish scream pierced the kitchen." Tanya, don't move . He's provoking you. Don't move, "I
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screamed and jumped up from the table. Tanya fell from her chair, crawling away from the monster. She pressed her back against the cabinet, and I froze in horror. On the cabinet she had bumped into was a domino plate." Tanya,
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stop! He won't hurt you, he's provoking you, "I screamed. The domino man approached her. His mouth opened. It was simply enormous, and its teeth were like blades. Foaming blood flowed from its mouth." Tanya! "I shouted again.
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She closed her eyes, not moving, not breathing. The creature touched her face with a claw, and then, I swear, I saw the domino man disappear, simply vanish into thin air. Marta immediately ran to Tanya in tears. She still did
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not move, shocked by what had happened. And I looked at my watch and realized that this was not the end." Everything will be fine, "Marta said, stroking her hair." Everything will be fine. "Tanya sighed sharply. Her chest shook, and at
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that moment, as if in slow motion, I saw how the domino tile standing on the nightstand staggered and fell to the floor. ล la La la
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