Vintage Halloween Greeting Card with Clock & Black Cat

A barefoot woman in a flowing blue-gray nightgown and a glowing jack-o'-lantern trapped inside a grandfather clock suggest a Victorian grandmother's vision of peak Halloween festivity — the pumpkin demon surrounded by what can only be described as decorative hellfire where the pendulum should be, while the woman presses against the case like she's listening for her ex's heartbeat. The clock face reads 'HALLOWE'EN,' because subtlety was apparently also murdered that night, and a black cat lurks in the lower left corner doing black cat things, completing this trifecta of chaos that the card cheerfully labels with 'BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR' — as if finding a pumpkin demon living in your grandfather clock is a perfectly normal seasonal occurrence worth mailing to loved ones.