Three children in Halloween costumes (a ghost in a draped white sheet, a witch in a black cloak and pointed hat, and a child with an orange pumpkin-shaped head) walk hand in hand away down a rural dirt road. Two black cats, one sitting and one mid-stride, are in the foreground, watching or following the group.

A weathered wooden fence runs beside the path, which is bordered by dry rust-orange shrubs and bare, spindly trees, leading toward a small distant cottage under a wide, softly clouded gray sky.

Flat, diffused overcast light gives a hazy autumn-dusk feel. Forms are built from thick dabs and dragged strokes rather than outlines, with palette-knife and brush texture, and canvas weave showing through thinner passages in the matte surface.