Fun Halloween GIFs to Get You in the Spooky Spirit

Happy Halloween! Here is a plethora of fun, festive animated GIFs to get you in the mood, from a bubbling cauldron and grinning jack-o’-lanterns to a haunted house, a dancing skeleton and a black cat with a taste for wine. Most of them come from motion designers and illustrators who post loops on Dribbble and Behance every October, and the looping GIF suits Halloween better than almost any other holiday. A good scare is a matter of timing, and a loop lets a small gag land again and again. Via IG:

Animated GIF of a black cauldron smoking on a table strewn with cobwebs and bones Animated GIF of a grinning orange jack-o'-lantern with a small black cat peeking from behind it on a purple background Animated GIF of tiny sparks and embers drifting across a dark purple night Animated GIF of a figure with a jack-o'-lantern head dancing in a moonlit graveyard flanked by two black cats Animated GIF of a black cat wearing a skull mask and raising a glass of wine Animated GIF of a glowing jack-o'-lantern face flickering in the dark Animated GIF of a trick-or-treater in a spider costume with extra arms holding a candy bucket Animated GIF of a green cartoon zombie hand crawling on its fingers with a bone sticking out Animated GIF of a purple haunted house with glowing yellow windows Animated GIF of a giant grinning mouth with fangs on a purple background Animated GIF of a smiling pumpkin with autumn leaves on a dark background Animated GIF of a dancing skeleton with a big grin on a hot pink background Animated GIF of a crow perched on a skull inside a glass dome on an orange background

Once you have had your fill of loops, we keep the season going elsewhere. Our vintage postcards from the witching hour show how Halloween looked a century ago, this spooky illusion asks what you see first, and for something built rather than drawn, there is the trick-or-treat zipline one dad rigged up in his front yard.