Talk:Mr. Widemouth/@comment-5471844-20180330140337

Rposting my own comment and pesonal theory on the ending [SPOILERS]

The kid was sick and ridden with fever. That makes his imagine the presence of a small creature that talks to him, and in his very young age, fantasy and reality mix together. And so the child imagined the trampoline and the knives (he didn't really touch it), and the creature was hiding when his parents came (another play on the fantasy theory). No one else saw Mr. Widemouth, so we have no proof that it exists. The boy remembers him so well because his young mind couldn't tell fantasy or fevers from reality.

The boy grew up and went to the place that Mr. Widemouth talked about. He then realizes the awful truth: Mr. Widemouth was not a fantasy or a fever hallucination. He was real, and was responsible for the death of many kids before him, and maybe killed others after him, and the creature intended to kill him too.

As for what the creature meant by saying “Someday, I'll take you there”, I think that he will make the child kill himself with his dangerous games, rather than killing him by himself, as he probably wouldn’t bury them or make their tombstones, and the cemetery wasn't only for children.