Halloween Origins

Halloween or All Hallows Eve is the evening before the November, 1st, the day when ancient Celts celebrated the New Year. That holiday symbolized the end of summer and the beginning of a long cold and scary winter. Celts named that night between summer and winter the night of Samhain and believed that the line between the world of the living and the world of dead get very thin that very evening. The ghosts of the dead return that night to Earth and may wander among the living ones and even do some bad to them.

And so the many traditions was born. People used bonfires out of carved pumpkins to scare away the ghosts and demons with lighting faces. Lots of lights, scary faces, spooky decorations were meant to trick demons and make them let the living ones alone.

The centuries went by, but the traditions remain. But today they are less scary and more funny and entertaining. People still decorate their houses with bats and cats silhouettes, carve ugly snoots on pumpkins and dress up in witches and zombies. But hardly anyone believes that all this stuff is still to scare demons away.

Best and Free Halloween Wallpaper Collection

House decorations are one of the favorite parts in Halloween preparations. And technical era added some peculiarities to this tradition. Today people decorate their smartphones, laptops, and tablets with cool skins and wallpapers. Scary images and sinister photos are everywhere and often represent the favorite pop-culture characters and brands.

Artists and graphic designers let their imagination go and draw inspiration in ominous stories, urban legends, latest horror movies, and fiction. That’s how such unique wallpaper designs are born.

Here we offer you the best of the best Halloween templates, our coolest pickups of the best free Halloween wallpaper backgrounds. Any of them can be used for your own purposes since we selected only “no-attribution-required” images. The enlisted graphics and photos have high-quality resolutions to please your eyes and most of them have a few sizes to fit various screens.

We selected the most versatile designs. Pumpkins, Jack O’Lanterns, witches and cats and even the latest reincarnation of the famous story from Stephen King.

Well then… anyone wants a balloon? Enjoy!

Halloween Party Wallpaper by MotoCMS

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Creepy House Wallpaper by MotoCMS

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Purple Night Wallpaper by DesignWebKit

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Halloween Wallpaper by PureWallpaperIn

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Where Pumpkins Are Born

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Jack O Flower

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Pumpkin Wallpaper

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Thriller Night

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It Movie Wallpaper

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Top Halloween Wallpaper

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Pacman Halloween

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Free Halloween Wallpaper by Clementine Creative

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Free Halloween Wallpapers by Netmath

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Boo! Hope you have found some inspiring imagery here? Got some cool decoration for your desktop? Don’t hesitate then and dress up your device in some spooky costume! And swear to me that if It isn’t dead you’ll all come back here the next year!

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Specially for this holiday, we’ve selected the roundup of humorous and striking Halloween pumpkins. In our set you’ll find Jack o’ lanterns with social symbolics and mysterious cartoon styled pumpkins. Moreover, below the showcase we present the detailed instruction how to carve your own impressive Halloween symbol.

Apple-logo pumpkin

Powerful and enigmatic pumpkin shaped as an Apple logotype. It will be one of the most memorable Halloween creations and one more way to give tribute to Steve Jobs.

WordPress Halloween pumpkin

Halloween orange WordPress pumpkin on a dark background looks like a secret door handle into a mystic ghost’s world. If such a cool creation will be shown on your window or threshold your neighbours at a glance understood that you are a WordPress fan.

Twitter Jack o’ lantern

What Halloween party can be without Twitter? We need it to connect with friends and also to surprise them when they visit us and see this unusual social pumpkin It’ll be cool if every member of the company brings his own Halloween craft-work to make a contest for the best Twitter Jack o’lantern.

Angry bird pumpkin

Everybody likes Angry birds, so everybody will like Jack o’ lantern with the carved birdie. Put the candle into a pumpkin and make it alive

Google Chrome pumpkin

The Google Chrome logo carved on the bright-orange pumpkin. Click to the picture which leads to the steps of making the Halloween attribute.

Emoticon geeky-pumpkin

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Such emoticon Halloween decoration will be a centrepiece of your party. It won’t cost you much money,all you need is only patience and diligence.

Halloween Mario pumpkin

This fictional character came from his video games specially to congratulate us with Halloween. So, trick or treat?

Windows 7

Windows 7 lovers can use this pretty example and create their own pumpkin artwork. You can also bring it along to your party if you are working in Windows 7 team.

Drupal Halloween Pumpkin

This Drupal Jack o’lantern is worth showing to your colleagues, friends and clients. Making such an original pumpkin is a good and unobtrusive way to promote this open source content management platform. The advertisement will be really viral and unobtrusive. Don’t you believe? Just try

Tux penguin pumpkin

This cartoon character is used in many various Linux programs as a general symbol of Linux. Why not utilize Tux as your Halloween decoration?

Cat-Themed Pumpkins

These beautiful Halloween creations inspire to make our own Jack o’ lanterns. Pumpkin with the black cat was made by using electric carving blade and fish skeleton pumpkin is illuminated with a red lantern. Halloween amazing artworks give us the idea that we can use lamp of different colors to light up our festive attributes.

Office 10 Halloween pumpkin

This modern “Office 10 Jack o’lantern” brings a happy spirit of Halloween to all Microsoft Office fans

How to carve an eye-catching Halloween pumpkin

After a close look at all these Halloween creations I have a great desire to carve my own Halloween decoration. I think I’m not alone, so let’s make our Halloween pumpkin together. We can do it easily without buying expensive accessories. All we need are only a pumpkin, sharp knife or pumpkin-carving saw, spoon, some paints, cool stencil to draw a freaky face and candle to illuminate your design.

First step. Choose a fresh pumpkin in a round or oval shape that fits to your needs.

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Second step. Draw the circle on the top of the pumpkin to prepare the space for your hand to reach through. Then cut via the stem end and use to and fro motions to cut down the tough skin.

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Third step. Pull the steam gently to remove the top. With the large spoon scrape away any seeds and pulp.

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Fourth step. Sketch the face of your Jack o’lantern on the clean pumpkin. It would be better if you practice on a paper at first. You can draw the picture with the help of pencil, pen or water-resistant marker, make sure all details are large enough to cut out small features.

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Fifth step. Now it comes time to cut out your design. Follow the sketch while you cut the face, then push the cut-out parts from the inside of a pumpkin. To keep your Halloween pumpkin fresh, coat the cut edges with oil.

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The ending step. Place the candle inside the carved pumpkin to illuminate Jack o’lantern and create a mystic fire.

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Pumpkins can be carved with comical or scary faces, it depends only on your Halloween pattern. So choose the sketch and go ahead! Good luck

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