Vintage Halloween Skeleton Pictures
Death doing a jig. The old engravers drew skeletons as cheerful company, fiddle and drum among the gravestones.
Share thisEmail
Memento Mori
A grinning skeleton tips his hat beneath the harvest moon — death doing a jig among the tombstones.
Modern folklore illustration · In the style of a c. 1920s lithograph
The Churchyard Band
Fiddle and drum among the gravestones — the danse macabre as the old engravers drew it.
Modern folklore illustration · In the style of a c. 1900 book plate
Dance on the Hill
Four skeletons in top hats caper along a moonlit ridge — the season's oldest joke about mortality.
Modern folklore illustration · In the style of a c. 1930 lithograph
Good Evening
A skeleton tips his silk hat in an open doorway, courteous to the last.
Modern folklore illustration · In the style of a c. 1906 engraving