Five simple white sheet ghosts make their way along a garden path, each carrying a small lantern or basket, with glowing jack-o'-lanterns resting in the grass among them. Behind them stands a symmetrical two-story cottage with warmly lit windows and an arched front door, tucked among dense autumn shrubs and framed by two large bare-branched trees with sparse golden-orange leaves.

Warm lantern light glows from the windows, doorway and carried lanterns against a cool, misty dusk, with soft bloom around each light source and a hazy forest fading into the evening. Loose, painterly oil strokes, thicker dabs for foliage and lantern glow and softer blending for mist and sky, give the scene a cozy, whimsical, gently spooky feel.