Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Pumpkin & Rat

What immediately strikes a modern viewer is the sheer presence of a rat in red boots dragging what appears to be a lobster across the card's left panel. The gray rat stands upright and purposeful, striding along in little red boots while hauling what looks like a red crustacean — because apparently rodent seafood delivery was the spooky vibe of the era. Meanwhile, a jack-o'-lantern with a genuinely smug expression looms large on the right, flanked by cattails and accompanied by a lit candle in a copper holder, while ghostly white wisps curl dramatically across a star-dotted sky above. The whole composition screams 'I have seen things in the marsh that cannot be unseen,' and yet someone's grandmother mailed this to wish someone a Happy Halloween.