Our Favorite Halloween Images

Bringing you our favourite Halloween images.

With autumn well underway, many people are preparing for Halloween and the spooky festivities that come with the day!

We also put you some autumn images on PikWizard! We have more than a million pictures in our stock photos. PikWizard can be very useful to have more ideas for background images! 

Halloween continues to grow in popularity, and nowadays, many businesses join in the fun by posting Halloween-themed content on their social media and blog, or by producing spooky products for the festivities!

If you’re looking to write or post about Halloween for your blog or business, then you may need some free stock images to make the post more of a treat than a trick!

All the photos in PikWizard are in a standard photos size, it will be useful and easy to use for you!

Here we share some of our favourite Halloween images that we think are frightfully good!

1. Dark Academia / Gothic Aesthetics — Think moody lighting, vintage props, candlelight, old books, and textured surfaces.

2. Minimal Spookiness — Rather than full-on horror, subtle hints: a single black cat, a candle flicker, or a lone pumpkin in negative space.

3. Animated & Motion Graphics — Glimmering eyes, floating orbs, subtle smoke, or animated overlays make images more dynamic.

4. User-Generated + Real Life — People want authenticity: home-decor setups, kids carving pumpkins, behind-the-scenes shots.

5. Augmented Reality / Filters — Halloween filters or overlay graphics that users can add to images themselves.

Pumpkin carving is an autumnal activity associated with Halloween that anyone can get involved with. The pumpkin is a blank canvas for you to carve out a spooky or funny image.

In this picture, a man is beginning to cut open the pumpkin, ready to prepare it. It’s probably a nicer image to capture than the ensuing period of having to scoop out all the seeds and flesh within this pumpkin that comes next in the process!

What would you carve into this pumpkin?

Of course, we cannot mention pumpkin carving without featuring the resulting Jack O’Lantern!

This pair of quirky pumpkins have been carved to look more funny than spooky. Carving a face into a pumpkin is a classic option, but in recent years, people have taken to carving more elaborate designs, like television characters or words.

Halloween is all about spookiness, so you might be after an image with a slightly darker hint to it. This image of a woman in black holding an animal skull while surrounded by candles and pumpkins evokes a witchy atmosphere and is perfect for a slightly spookier effect.

Trick or treating is a core part of Halloween – knocking on people’s doors and shouting “Trick or Treat!” in the hope of gaining some candies or chocolates.

This picture shows a hefty haul of Halloween goodies in a pumpkin bucket, but from the looks of those spooky spiders, there were a few tricks amongst these treats!

Halloween goodies in a pumpkin bucket is a great Halloween gift idea for kids. There are many more scary and sweet Halloweens which you can pick to give someone.

When looking for images to use on social media or on blogs, we love pictures like this that use a lot of black or empty space, as it gives you an area to add your own text. Whether you’re promoting a Halloween product or event, or simply want to wish your followers a Happy Halloween, an image like this is ideal, and you can find plenty of similar options on Pikwizard.​

Pumpkins are clearly a strong theme when it comes to Halloween, but this image has the added bonus of being held by a slightly spookily-dressed woman.

The black dress and black fingernails add to the Halloween feeling, giving off a slightly witchy vibe. If you’re after a Halloween-related image that is a bit spooky without being too scary, then this could be perfect.

• Leave whitespace or dark space in the composition for text overlays or logos.

• Match image tone to your brand voice — spooky and fun? Dark and elegant?

• Use animated versions or subtle motion to catch viewers’ attention in feeds.

• Optimize for mobile — most people will view on phones, so ensure key subjects aren’t cropped out.

• Use alt text & SEO-friendly captions — e.g. “Lit jack-o-lantern on dark background” helps with discoverability.

• Bundle into themed sets or templates — “Pumpkin set,” “Witch decor set,” “Kids trick-or-treat set.”

• Animated / motion-friendly images or overlays for Halloween.

• Expanded themed collections: “Spooky Halloween Images”, “Aesthetic Halloween Backgrounds”.

• Free Halloween Background Videos you can use for site headers or social (e.g. 4K spooky backdrops).
  

• Candy, decor, and detail shots for supplemental visuals.