10-9-2025 Latham's Last Words: It's Always Halloween Here by Matt Forgit
- Donna Latham
- Oct 7
- 1 min read
Welcome to Latham's Last Words, where I give you my last words on books I've enjoyed. Today I'm featuring my first read of spooky season: It's Always Halloween Here by Matt Forgit! This is the perfect Halloween read!
Not in the mood for spooky season? Well, this book will take care of that for you.
"The house didn't just stand. It loomed, as if wrenched out of time, a relic from a dream too strange to forget."
A Halloween haunted house story that'll have you turning on all the lights. A tale full of twisted, dark and disturbing imagery that will chill you to the bone. This was much darker than the other books I've read by Forgit. While there was still a plethora of pop culture references, this book didn't have any of Forgit's signature light-heartedness.
Several scenes stick out to me.
The chapter where the friends are watching a movie reminded me of the movie scenes from The Ring, a silent movie with scenes increasingly disturbing and terrifying.
The chapter with the pumpkin patch with living pumpkins devouring people made me never want to go to a pumpkin patch again. The way the sounds and smells were described brought me right there.
And finally, the chapter with the friends viewing mannequin scenes showing the evolving evil of The Faulkner House made me think of a sinister version of The Carousel of Progress at Disney World.
So come along on a tour of The Faulkner House and hopefully you'll get out.
"It reached toward them one last time, a hundred fingers trying to learn the shape of goodbye."
Get it here!
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