Halloween Bedtime Vintage Greeting Card with Fairies & Goblins

The card's ornate text cheerfully instructs the recipient to 'close your eyes and hide your head' because 'fairies and goblins will be hovering round your bed,' yet the visual shows a woman in a white nightgown sleeping peacefully against her pillow while three winged fairy figures hover around her — one perched dramatically at the headboard, one floating near her back, and one creeping up beside her — all supervised by a full moon glowing ominously through the window. This is less Halloween greeting and more restraining order waiting to happen. The decorative Halloween Time lettering and a small toy sailboat on the bedside table somehow make the whole uninvited-bedroom-visitation scenario feel even more unhinged, as if the Edwardian greeting card industry looked at sleep paralysis and said, 'yes, but make it festive.'