A front row of large carved jack-o'-lanterns with triangular eyes and jagged, toothy grins fills the foreground edge to edge. Behind them, a Gothic Victorian manor with a tall central steeple, dark roofline and dormer windows sits atop a grassy hill, flanked by dark, loosely painted trees and shrubs.

Black bats scatter across a hazy sky, where a large pale full moon hangs low in a soft, diffused glow.

Thick, confident impasto strokes, with palette-knife and loaded-brush ridges in the pumpkin ribbing and foliage and dry-brush drag elsewhere, give the scene a hand-painted texture and a charming, nostalgic folk-art spookiness.