Candle Game : Legendary Planet : 9781939437365 : 1939437369 : 27 Sep 2015 : In Old Japan, people gathered to pass long, dark evenings testing one another's nerve with the game Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai. Taking turns sharing stories of the weird, the ghostly, and the supernatural and snuffing a candle after each tale, they would continue long into the night or until, in the growing darkness, someone reached the end of their nerves and called the game off. Candle Game(TM) updates this old tradition, providing rules for play as well as classic stories of the weird and ghostly for players to tell. As each candle goes out, the shadows and whatever they hide press nearer...do you dare listen to one more story?THE SHEER, FRAIL SPACE BETWEEN THE EVERYDAY AND THE UNCANNYTo the people of Old Japan, the barrier between our world and the world of the ghostly and supernatural was as thin as the paper of a shoji wall, with ghosts and demons and monsters crossing freely and unexpected to torment and