Vintage Halloween Pumpkin Man Greeting Card, Early 1900s

Three stacked jack-o'-lanterns of escalating girth, topped with a straw hat and accessorized with twig arms bent at a jaunty 'hands-on-hips' angle that screams 'I'd like to speak to your manager,' comprise the Pumpkin Snowman Nobody Asked For. The carved face on the head pumpkin wears a smile so relentlessly cheerful it could only be described as performatively unhinged, while the three button-like dots running down the middle pumpkin suggest this thing is dressed for a business casual haunting. The verse at the bottom — about owls hooting, pumpkins making faces, and 'lots of things that you can't see' — is doing a lot of heavy lifting to convince you this stacked gourd nightmare is festive rather than a cry for help.