Vintage Halloween Greeting Card 1920s Child Scared Pumpkin

What exactly is that disembodied adult hand descending from the upper right corner—a greeting or a threat? Apparently the optimal way to reassure someone is with a shrieking, saucer-eyed child clutching what appears to be a black mask while that giant reaching stranger-hand seems poised to pinch someone into oblivion. The sad little jack-o'-lantern in the bottom right corner looks like it, too, has seen the hand and deeply regrets its life choices. The cognitive dissonance of reassuring Halloween text paired with a giant reaching stranger-hand and a visibly traumatized child suggests the greeting card industry of this era had a very different definition of 'comfort.' Truly a masterpiece of accidental psychological horror dressed up in cheerful orange and blue.