Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Black Cats and Spooky Sky

The card's reassuring text — 'On Hallowe'en what if the spooks appear / Just watch the sky and have no fear' — pairs beautifully with imagery that is, in fact, multiple spooks appearing, as if the card's own art department didn't read the brief. Perched on a fence like it owns the property dispute, a black cat arches its back against a stormy grey sky while a row of grinning jack-o'-lanterns lines the fence below — because apparently the best way to communicate 'calm down, it's fine' is five smirking severed gourd heads. Meanwhile, in the upper left corner, a witch has been inexplicably crammed into a circular vignette beside a yellow moon, her pointy hat and broom suggesting she got there via Portal to Mild Inconvenience. Victorian Halloween: where 'don't worry' and 'here's a nightmare collage' were considered synonymous.