Vintage Halloween Black Cat Greeting Card, Early 1900s

Meet this black cat with enormous yellow eyes, perched atop the wooden fence with its back arched into a full existential crisis and mouth agape in what can only be described as a hiss-scream hybrid—it has absolutely zero chill. Behind it, a full moon wears a face, complete with visible eyes and a nose, because apparently the sky itself needed to be unsettling too. The cheerful red and blue 'A Merry Hallowe'en' text painted directly on the fence planks below suggests that whoever designed this card had a fundamentally different definition of 'merry' than the rest of civilization. The cat's tail, raised at a triumphant vertical angle, completes the composition in a way that is either deeply symbolic or just aggressively on-brand for a creature that clearly runs this fence and always has.