Holder of Nightmares

In any city, in any country, go to any phone-box you can get yourself to. Make sure that you do this about fifteen or twenty minutes past midnight, and that nobody is accompanying you or watching you. Close the door to the phone-box, pick up the receiver, touch nothing else past this point. Hold the receiver to your ear and whisper, "I wish to meet the Holder of Nightmares." After a minute, if no voice has replied, leave the phone-box as fast as you can. Do not question why.

If the you hear a man's voice reply in a language you do not recognize, then you have succeeded. Close your eyes and do not move. You should feel a sort of pressure close over you, and then the sudden sensation of falling. Should you open your eyes at any point, you shall wake up outside the phone-box with your arms broken and bleeding in many places.

If you manage to keep your eyes closed, you will feel yourself land softly onto what feels like a chair. Feel free to open your eyes now. Upon doing so you shall see that you are in a room which is about waist high in smoke. In front of you is a four-poster bed. Approach the bed, and pick up the item that is lying on it. Hold it tightly in the hand you use to write with. This item will be different for everyone that enters this room.

Get into the bed and sleep. Sleeping is not difficult in this room as the fog makes you tired. You will dream. The dreams you have will be of unspeakable horrors, becoming more twisted and grotesque as they progress. As long as you keep the item in your writing hand, you shall be protected, however at any time should some sort of force try to pry the item from you, say loudly, "I bring no harm, I only wish to meet the Holder of Nightmares." If they manage to take the item from you... no one can hear your screams.

The last dream will be near-lifelike. You will be standing in front of the person you love most. Do not look into their eyes, for they are your own. Do not hesitate for too long, or your quest will be over, and you shall be stuck watching Nightmares for your existence. Simply beat the person to death with the item you have - at this point it will have turned into a metal pipe or a wrench.

When they stop moving, close your eyes for a few seconds. The person you just killed will appear as an old man, his grey hair and beard matted with blood, his skull fractured and broken. This is the Holder of Nightmares. Push your hand onto his heart and you shall be taken back to the phone-box, the receiver ripped off the cord and held where your weapon was. Walk away from the phonebox and watch, if you want, as it destroys itself. The glass will break, the coin box will smash itself and the phoneless cord will whip itself through the air.

That phone in your hand is Object 149 of 538. Do not let dreams stand in your way.