Victorian Halloween Greetings Card with Pumpkin-Headed Man and Elegant Woman

A jack-o'-lantern easily three times the size of a human head sits perched on a man's shoulders in a black suit with patterned stockings, bent double over what appears to be a golden grate on the ground, while a well-dressed Edwardian woman in a sweeping red skirt leans in with a smile that suggests she either finds this charming or has completely dissociated. An owl flies near a crescent moon in the upper right corner, presumably the only witness to whatever courtship ritual this is meant to represent. The thistle garden setting screams 'romantic,' the hyphen in 'Hallowe'en' screams 'period accuracy,' and the whole composition screams 'the Victorian concept of fun was clinically unwell.'