Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Boy with Jack-o-Lanterns Broomsticks

Like a LinkedIn profile photo from 1905, this dead-eyed boy wears a neat collared shirt and red tie while peering over a white fence and dangling a stick toward two jack-o-lanterns in the grass below: one grinning, one decidedly not. The sad pumpkin's drooping carved expression suggests it fully understands what's happening here, which is that a well-dressed child is menacing it with a stick on a holiday ostensibly about fun. The accompanying poem helpfully warns that witches are out frolicking with broomsticks and lanterns, which frankly sounds like a better time than whatever power trip is happening over this fence. Vintage Halloween: where the real horror is the unsettling calm of a formally dressed child conducting what appears to be a property dispute with sentient gourds.