It’s the day before Halloween in the small New England town of Blackwood Falls. Every home is decorated with jack-o-lanterns, ghosts and goblins; the children are choosing their costumes from Tozier’s Costume Emporium, and the adults are making the final preparations for the town’s annual Halloween Carnival. But Halloween in Blackwood Falls will be anything but ordinary this year…

Rick Pirelli and his best friends Thad and Scott love Halloween. Before they head off to pick up their costumes, they notice an eerie green glow coming from the base of a tree in Rick’s backyard. The tree, with bark as black as pitch, gave the town of Blackwood Falls its name. The boys unearth an ancient book filled with strange symbols, and unwittingly set into motion a chain of events that will endanger the entire town.

The Doctor and Martha arrive just as an ominous green mist descends upon Blackwood Falls. The mist seems to be coming from the exact spot where the boys found the strange book. The unnatural fog soon has people in the town feeling uneasy, and the Doctor notes that it seems to be feeding off the people’s deepest fears. When monstrous creatures called Hervoken begin attacking residents of Blackwood Falls, the Doctor and Martha are the town’s only hope. Can they stop the growing threat before it’s too late?

This is one of my favorite Doctor Who novels. Mark Morris did an excellent job in capturing the spirit of the television show while still making the story his own. The Doctor and Martha are portrayed very well, and there are a lot of fun references to past adventures. Forever Autumn is a great Halloween read for any Doctor Who fan.

Perfectly creepy for Halloween this Doctor Who novel has everything in an episode as well as bringing in new characters that are equally as lovable.

The aliens are creepy but they work. They never speak, but you can still understand.

Loved it.

Halloween in the TARDIS? Yes please! The Doctor and Martha come across a town the day before 31st October where a strange green mist has invaded the town. A man loses his mouth, rubber bats come to life and attack - something wicked this way comes...

I really enjoyed this Halloween-filled adventure with Ten and Martha, a brilliant story to add to the series with wonderfully spooky new enemies! With cats whose eyes glow green and a subtle explanation for where the spooky holiday all started, it has all the feel of autumn and thrill of another adenture in the TARDIS.

Definitely a good book to read round Halloween!

Somewhere in New England there’s a very old and strange tree, the tree that gave the town of Blackwood Falls its name. When three boys dig up an old and musty book near the base of the tree it begins a Halloween like none the town has ever experienced, or would ever want to experience. What better time and place for a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey and his companion to visit? When the eyes of all the cats take on a strange glow and even the rubber Halloween decorations take on a life of their own, is it magic or just advanced alien technology? Only the Doctor knows.

Will Thorp reads this pleasantly creepy, but not-too-frightening tale at a properly almost breathless pace, as he drags us through the underground lair of the ancient and now awakened aliens or through the eerie greenish fog suffusing the town.

Not the worst Doctor Who novelisation I've read. Unfortunately, the Doctor's energy simply doesn't come across in the written word.

Fun, tightly paced and quick; a good scary read, but not challenging. The characterizations are excellent (you can hear Martha and 10 inside your head spaces) and the monsters very scary - wishing I'd waited for the scarier times of year for this one...

Meh, It was alright.

Martha and the Doctor land in New England. It’s almost Halloween and preparations are underway in the small town of Blackwood Falls. But as a green mist begins to cover the town, it’s clear that this will be no ordinary Halloween.

This was an enjoyable story and I really enjoyed Mark Morris writting. Plus Halloween was a great setting for the plot. However, the ‘monsters’ were weak: they seemed incredibly cartoonish. Overall this wasn’t the best of the series, but it was enjoyable enough.