Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Jack-o'-Lanterns & Children

The boy on the left in his plaid outfit gazes upward with the vacant wonder of someone who has absolutely no thoughts, while the girl in the middle in her blue bow and white blouse blows what appears to be a kiss or possibly air at her pumpkin, and a tiny toddler on the right in a polka-dot dress triumphantly hoists her gourd aloft like she just won it at auction — together, they parade through a dramatically divided black-and-white background, each brandishing a jack-o'-lantern on a stick like they're auditioning for the world's most wholesome torchlight procession. The three jack-o'-lanterns themselves range from vaguely menacing to smugly grinning, which tracks, because apparently in Edwardian Halloween theology, 'Goblins' are your friends now — your luck-dispensing, pumpkin-headed little friends. The text at the bottom cheerfully informs us that 'Hallow Een Goblins' will 'bring you Luck,' which is the kind of unhinged optimism that could only exist in an era before anyone had seen a horror film.