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It's Always Halloween Here
Halloween night in Doran, Massachusetts. The gates of The Faulkner House are open to the public for the first time ever. Loretta Ward is visiting her hometown for her cousin’s wedding and decides to visit the house with her childhood friends.
Inside the mansion’s twisting halls, reality unravels. Portraits watch, mirrors lie, and unseen voices echo through the dark.
Each room reveals a new terror. Phantoms from lost films, séances that summon more than spirits, and shadows that stretch with malicious intent. As the friends search for a way out, they realize the truth. The Faulkner House doesn’t just open on Halloween. It feeds on souls.
It’s Always Halloween Here is a chilling haunted house tale soaked in nostalgia, urban legend, and terror of Halloween night.
Inside the mansion’s twisting halls, reality unravels. Portraits watch, mirrors lie, and unseen voices echo through the dark.
Each room reveals a new terror. Phantoms from lost films, séances that summon more than spirits, and shadows that stretch with malicious intent. As the friends search for a way out, they realize the truth. The Faulkner House doesn’t just open on Halloween. It feeds on souls.
It’s Always Halloween Here is a chilling haunted house tale soaked in nostalgia, urban legend, and terror of Halloween night.
- GenresHorror
273 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 13, 2025
18 people are currently reading
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About the author
Matt Forgit
7 books59 followersMatt Forgit lives and writes in New England. His interests include spending time with friends and family, annoying his better half, trying to be a cool uncle, scary stuff, movies, television shows, music, reading, eating, board games, creepy folklore, urban legends, spooky history, abandoned places, castles, islands, cabins in the woods, being near the ocean, and the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He is terrible with social media, dreams of owning a haunted bed and breakfast atop a cliffside overlooking the sea, hopes that someday Chopping Mall: The Musical becomes a reality, and doesn't normally talk about himself in the third person. For updates, random thoughts, horror recommendations, and general nonsense, please like and follow “Matt Forgit Author” on Facebook.
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November 3, 2025
Great read for Halloween! The last chapter was my fave!
September 18, 2025
You ever read a book that feels like you just ate a bunch of LSD and are walking through the most terrifying haunt ever? Well, Matt has really outdone himself here and has created something quite unique. His usual trademarks of bountiful 80's pop culture/horror easter eggs and passionate character driven narratives (the final girls!) are alive and well but this time applied to a surreal, mind-melting Freddy Kruger-esque nightmare full of twists, turns, and most importantly, MONSTERS, GHOSTS AND GHOULS! It truly is an Odyssean excursion through the most pleasant and terrifying realms of Halloween nostalgia and B movie marathon sleepovers, all contained in the shapeshifting walls and rooms of the Faulkner House!
I recommend listening to any album by Pumpkin Witch while you read this.
I recommend listening to any album by Pumpkin Witch while you read this.
October 31, 2025
If you're looking for a thrilling horror read for Halloween, "It's Always Halloween Here" by Matt Forgit is an amazing spooky read. Set on Halloween night in the haunted town of Doran, Massachusetts, this story follows Loretta Ward as she visits her hometown for her cousin's wedding and decides to explore the infamous Faulkner House with her friends.
As they venture into the mansion's twisting halls, reality unravels, and Loretta's night takes a dark turn. A suspenseful ride that's hard to put down. I loved the 80s-90s nostalgia in this story, and the descriptive, haunting spooky gory scenes had me on edge! I will definitely be having nightmares after reading this! I will be staying far away from haunted house tours tonight on Halloween! 5/5 stars!
As they venture into the mansion's twisting halls, reality unravels, and Loretta's night takes a dark turn. A suspenseful ride that's hard to put down. I loved the 80s-90s nostalgia in this story, and the descriptive, haunting spooky gory scenes had me on edge! I will definitely be having nightmares after reading this! I will be staying far away from haunted house tours tonight on Halloween! 5/5 stars!
November 13, 2025
Great Halloween read featuring an absolute house of horrors. Monsters, ghouls and everything inbetween!
I love how Matt adds in humour even in the worst scenarios.
I love how Matt adds in humour even in the worst scenarios.
October 29, 2025
Just in time for Halloween (I’m almost caught up with my reviews!) comes Matt Forgit’s “It’s Always Halloween Here.” A treat for Halloween lovers thru & thru. Be it October or any other month of the year. Btw, this book is all treats, no tricks. It’s always Halloween Here is creepy from the opening till the end. Matt was not pulling any punches with this frightening horror-fest.
Quick synopsis:
A small, quiet town in Massachusetts is housing something not at all small & far from quiet. The ominous Faulkner House has been closed to the public for as long as Loretta could remember. So it seemed like fate that it opened its doors for the first time when she comes back home & catches up with old friends. Was it all a coincidence? Or is the house looking for new inhabitants?
To read a Matt Forgit book is to know you are being delivered AAA grade horror on a bloody platter, from someone who knows it in & out. Matt uses his skilled writing to reconceptualize tropes we know & love, spinning them into new nightmares for our sadistic subconscious minds to unleash later. The man eats/drinks horror & spits it out for diehard fans to truly enjoy. This book felt like an homage to so many haunted house stories of yore, updated & to the upteenth level. The scares & the mood stayed deadly throughout, upping the ante til we get to the heart of the “matter.” & like most of his books, if you pay attention really close, you may catch a reference/Easter egg or 40. Highly recommend for all true horror lovers!
Quick synopsis:
A small, quiet town in Massachusetts is housing something not at all small & far from quiet. The ominous Faulkner House has been closed to the public for as long as Loretta could remember. So it seemed like fate that it opened its doors for the first time when she comes back home & catches up with old friends. Was it all a coincidence? Or is the house looking for new inhabitants?
To read a Matt Forgit book is to know you are being delivered AAA grade horror on a bloody platter, from someone who knows it in & out. Matt uses his skilled writing to reconceptualize tropes we know & love, spinning them into new nightmares for our sadistic subconscious minds to unleash later. The man eats/drinks horror & spits it out for diehard fans to truly enjoy. This book felt like an homage to so many haunted house stories of yore, updated & to the upteenth level. The scares & the mood stayed deadly throughout, upping the ante til we get to the heart of the “matter.” & like most of his books, if you pay attention really close, you may catch a reference/Easter egg or 40. Highly recommend for all true horror lovers!
November 19, 2025
Matt Forgit’s It’s Always Halloween Here is a perfect novel for the Halloween season, a book heavily inspired by cult horror films so many of us have grown up on, this novel feels like a blend of haunted house party films like Night of the Demons or Hell Night mixed with elements of Thirteen Ghosts and Hellraiser.
The novel takes a group of childhood friends, now all functioning adults with families and lives that have caused some to be less connected, who get together for a Halloween night they will never forget as the local “haunted” house in their old neighborhood has opened its doors to visitors for this one night only. As they enter the house in hopes of a nostalgic, fun and creepy time before returning to their normal lives, they have no idea that all of their lives will be forever changed the house has a life all of it’s own.
The great thing here is truly the exploration of nostalgia, collected experiences but then delving into individual yet universal themes, acknowledging that everyone has experiences they keep hidden, much like the secrets held within this house, unknown to the outside world. As the story goes on, those deeply hidden secrets must be faced in order to survive, forcing them to be processed and conquered rather than bottled up and avoided.
While the cast of characters in this novel are initially presented as a big group, our main protagonist as the story progresses is Loretta, the one friend who has seemingly moved out of the town to pursue a career in Boston and seems to have the most longing for the relationships that have distanced while also feeling as though she ran away from something that she is not particularly open about. The story presents a well developed arch for Loretta as initially the one with the most to hide eventually becomes the to first understand what the only way to defeat the house is to stop hiding.
I truly enjoyed story in this novel, it felt new while also feeling familiar, perhaps due to Forgit’s love for the horror genre and nods to films that so many genre lovers hold dearly. The first half of this novel embraces so much of the feeling adults who loved Halloween feel, that yearning for nostalgia, that reflection on the times they had, and that desire to recreate that magic they once experienced. The second half takes a hard turn and brings us to a psychological journey filled with horrific and chilling moments as well as Forgit’s incredible ability to craft creepy imagery through his thoughtful use of descriptive wording.
I highly recommend this reading but especially as a fun Halloween/early fall read to really capture that special feeling we are all searching for at that time!
The novel takes a group of childhood friends, now all functioning adults with families and lives that have caused some to be less connected, who get together for a Halloween night they will never forget as the local “haunted” house in their old neighborhood has opened its doors to visitors for this one night only. As they enter the house in hopes of a nostalgic, fun and creepy time before returning to their normal lives, they have no idea that all of their lives will be forever changed the house has a life all of it’s own.
The great thing here is truly the exploration of nostalgia, collected experiences but then delving into individual yet universal themes, acknowledging that everyone has experiences they keep hidden, much like the secrets held within this house, unknown to the outside world. As the story goes on, those deeply hidden secrets must be faced in order to survive, forcing them to be processed and conquered rather than bottled up and avoided.
While the cast of characters in this novel are initially presented as a big group, our main protagonist as the story progresses is Loretta, the one friend who has seemingly moved out of the town to pursue a career in Boston and seems to have the most longing for the relationships that have distanced while also feeling as though she ran away from something that she is not particularly open about. The story presents a well developed arch for Loretta as initially the one with the most to hide eventually becomes the to first understand what the only way to defeat the house is to stop hiding.
I truly enjoyed story in this novel, it felt new while also feeling familiar, perhaps due to Forgit’s love for the horror genre and nods to films that so many genre lovers hold dearly. The first half of this novel embraces so much of the feeling adults who loved Halloween feel, that yearning for nostalgia, that reflection on the times they had, and that desire to recreate that magic they once experienced. The second half takes a hard turn and brings us to a psychological journey filled with horrific and chilling moments as well as Forgit’s incredible ability to craft creepy imagery through his thoughtful use of descriptive wording.
I highly recommend this reading but especially as a fun Halloween/early fall read to really capture that special feeling we are all searching for at that time!
October 8, 2025
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."
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."
October 29, 2025
This read was a really fun and interesting house of horrors. I absolutely loved every aspect of the horror elements and scares. the reason I could not give it more than 3 stars was that I felt like the plot fell short. mid way through the book, I got a little fatigued just chasing the characters' room to room. The horrors in the rooms were top-notch, but the storyline was missing. Overall, I would recommend this book for somebody looking for something spooky for Halloween.
December 12, 2025
Phew. Matt said this was like Fear Street for adults and he wasn’t kidding. A terrifying haunted house on Halloween chock full of demons and ghosts? SIGN ME UP! It has been awhile since a book has creeped me out as thoroughly as this one did. The descriptions, the ambiance, the DREAD. This whole book was a non-stop fever dream. I absolutely could not put it down. Word of advice: read this in a dark quiet room. Uninterrupted. You’ll be glad you did. *maniacal laughter*
October 22, 2025
Horror
Holy Sh....
What a ride. This book was everything I didn't know I needed! It's a classic haunted house situation, but so incredibly terrifying! I cringed as I read some parts of the book since it's very graphic. It has a lot of 80s and 90s references which I loved, the creativity with the scary scenes (and there's a ton) 👏 truly disturbing.
Holy Sh....
What a ride. This book was everything I didn't know I needed! It's a classic haunted house situation, but so incredibly terrifying! I cringed as I read some parts of the book since it's very graphic. It has a lot of 80s and 90s references which I loved, the creativity with the scary scenes (and there's a ton) 👏 truly disturbing.
October 5, 2025
Packed from cover to cover with scenes of gruesome, trippy, and sometimes spine-chilling horror! The imagery is both surreal and unsettling, pulling you deeper into a nightmarish atmosphere that lingers in your mind.
October 14, 2025
This felt like breaking into Rose Red on acid.
This book was everything I’ve learned to expect when Matt writes. Colorful, relatable characters. Creepy vibes and atmosphere. Nostalgia and of course a garnish of heartbreak.
This is not your average haunted house. Tread carefully.
This book was everything I’ve learned to expect when Matt writes. Colorful, relatable characters. Creepy vibes and atmosphere. Nostalgia and of course a garnish of heartbreak.
This is not your average haunted house. Tread carefully.
October 12, 2025
This spooky read was such a blast! Think Monster House meets Creepshow and Goosebumps—but for adults. Safe to say, I won’t be wandering into any creepy old houses anytime soon! 👻🎃💀
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