Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Pumpkin & Black Cat

A modern viewer might first notice the small girl in a white dress and red hair bow leaning toward a jack-o-lantern with the cautious energy of someone defusing a bomb, while a sleek black cat slinks menacingly past the pumpkin in the opposite direction—completely ignoring her, which is honestly the most realistic thing about it. The jack-o-lantern sits between them like an awkward third wheel at a dinner party neither guest wanted to attend, its carved grin suggesting it finds the whole situation delightful. The apostrophe in 'Hallowe'en' is doing more gothic heavy lifting than anything else on this card, and yet somehow the entire composition is labeled simply as 'Greetings,' as if any of this constitutes a warm seasonal hello.