Vintage Halloween Greeting Card: Pumpkin Scarecrows & Running Boy

This image radiates a distinctly unsettling chase-scene energy: two pumpkin-headed figures in black robes — their 'bodies' essentially just black cloth with white-wrapped stumps for limbs — gleefully pursue a wide-eyed child in a red-brimmed hat, who flees alongside a very much alive (if terrified) tan dog. The jack-o'-lanterns sport classic carved grins beneath a crescent moon, which hangs in the sky with the serene indifference of someone who has absolutely seen worse. The child's expression reads less 'spooky fun' and more 'I have made a terrible mistake attending this harvest festival,' and yet some Victorian graphic designer looked at this scene of sentient gourd-monsters chasing a minor and thought, yes, slap 'A Merry Hallowe'en' on it in festive red letters — perfect.