Vintage Halloween Prints

Real Halloween art from 1893 to about 1930 (magazine covers, newspaper and book illustrations, a party poster and one Victorian photograph), sourced from public domain archives and formatted for modern frames. These prints add instant atmosphere to any wall and look like genuine antique finds rather than mass-produced seasonal decor.

What’s Included

• 10 high-resolution vintage prints in PDF and PNG formats
• Each image formatted at 8 x 10 inches, 300 DPI
• Subjects include:
  • J. C. Leyendecker’s witch on a broomstick before the full moon, Saturday Evening Post cover, 1923
  • Children bobbing for apples, New-York Tribune illustrated supplement, 1904
  • Children in costume at a Halloween party, Frances Tipton Hunter, 1923
  • Three skeletons playing music, a photograph from 1893
  • A young woman gazing into a hand mirror, Guernsey Moore’s Saturday Evening Post cover, 1903
  • A jack-o’-lantern parade of witches and brooms, Alice B. Preston, 1920
  • Halloween parlor games and divination, from Stanley Schell’s Hallowe’en Festivities, 1903
  • A witch surrounded by doves, Dugald Stewart Walker, 1918
  • “The Goblins Are Out,” Tom R. Wood, Los Angeles Herald, 1920
  • A Halloween masquerade poster for Chicago’s Dill Pickle Club, c. 1910 to 1930
• All images are public domain (no copyright restrictions)

Design Details

Each image was digitally restored from high-resolution scans of original 19th and early 20th century magazine covers, prints, book illustrations and newspaper pages. Color correction was applied to bring out the original tones without making them look artificially vibrant. Minor damage, foxing, and aging marks were preserved where they add character and removed where they distracted from the composition. The 8 x 10 format fits the most widely available frame size, and the PNG versions allow custom cropping for other dimensions.

Print at a photo lab or on a high-quality inkjet printer using matte photo paper. Frame in simple black or dark wood frames. Group three or more in a gallery wall arrangement for maximum impact. For context on when these images were originally produced, see our history of Halloween commercialization, and for telling period Halloween paper from reissues, our guide to collecting vintage Halloween.

Pairs With

• Gothic Elegant Party Blueprint for Victorian-themed wall decor
• Seance Script to decorate the seance room
• Victorian Party Invitation for a consistent antique aesthetic