Halloween Wallpapers (Cute & Spooky)

If you are here, it’s “Spooky Season” already and you are looking for your dose of scare. I have curated some Spooky Wallpapers for your scary as well as cutesy Halloween needs. Boo ghosts, Pumpkins, Skulls; there’s something for all!

And for all the old-school readers here, there are little notes (or stories) appended at the bottom of every wallpaper (‘cause my inner storyteller took over me right before posting). The story is the thought behind that picture and the emotions it invokes. If you also felt likewise or even a whole new emotion than the thought appended, the storyteller inside me would love to read it in the comments. 

Pumpkin Halloween Wallpapers

1. Scary Pumpkin Halloween Wallpaper – The Octopus Style

This wallpaper is an outcome of the thought that ‘scare’ can grasp many, it doesn’t have to be a lot (or a big one), just a tiny thought of it could suck the life out of us. A single pumpkin here, seems to engulf us all in its fear trap, without needing the help of another.

2. Halloween Pumpkins Wallpaper – The Harry Potter & Pumpkins

If you are a Potter Maniac, this wallpaper is for you. A flying witch on the broom, the crooked smiling pumpkins, and the boo ghost waiting for you inside the pumpkin; what else you might miss? Ohh, a fiery moon on a mystically dark night!

3. Scary Halloween Pumpkins Wallpaper – The Pumpkin Night

This wallpaper has a European vibe to it: thick native trees within a rock boundary, Victorian style lamp posts and hanging lanterns, moist autumn leaves as in colder regions. Add a dark and a ‘chilling’ night multiplying the scare.

4. Pumpkin Halloween Background – The Pumpkin Background   

If you hate waking up to extreme scare while looking at your morning wakeup time, this wallpaper is for you. Small scary pumpkins with even lesser scare on their faces and small boo ghosts with barely-there scare ensures that you don’t release stress hormones right after a relaxed sleep.

5. Scary Pumpkins Background – The Halloween Wallpaper 

Here’s another low-on-scare-score wallpaper. With a few dry autumn leaves and with less scary pumpkins, it subtly reminds you of autumn and Halloween, and that cozy time of the year, all without any chills.

Spirit Halloween Wallpapers

6. Spirit Halloween Wallpaper – The Scary Boo Ghost

The thought behind this wallpaper was minimalism. Just a boo ghost and its tiny accomplice, and the scare factor is sorted. The fear doesn’t need a village to scare us, it might come in a small packet.

7. Spirit Halloween Wallpaper – The Real Spirit Scare

This wallpaper is for an ultimate spirit scare. Death itself is here, in Spirit and in truth, to evoke the highest fear. And we must be grateful to it, for reinstating the faith in God, time again!

8. Halloween Spirit Wallpaper – The Walking Spirit

This wallpaper is your worst scare walking right in front of you, towards you. It is coming to engulf you and take your faith along. The only way to keep your beliefs alive is to let this fear evaporate in thin air!

9. Halloween Boo Ghost Wallpaper – The Scary Ghost

Abstract art sums this wallpaper up. Splashes of blood, red and dark; fear-instilling pumpkins; and a killer boo ghost. This image checks off all the boxes of the Spookiest Halloween Ideas that ever come to mind!

10. Boo Ghost Wallpapers – The Jumping Ghosts

Here’s another wallpaper for minimalism lovers. Just some small mini boo ghosts and that, too in the softest color: pink. The pink color of the boo ghosts was a deliberate pick, too, just to dispel the myth that ‘not everything pink is cute and happy, always’. Pink scare can be real!

Scary Halloween Wallpapers

If you are a fan of experiencing a ‘deadly scare’, this section is for you. Feel the scare, here!

11. Scary Halloween Wallpapers – The Halloween Skulls

This wallpaper has emotions of death and the scare of life after death. “It’s scary to be the dead” is the vibe of this one. 

12. Halloween Wallpapers Scary – The Magnetic Scare

Life is still ‘Pumpkins & Fear’ on this Halloween. The wallpaper also adds a little metallic touch for the Metal Etchings art lovers. 

13. Skull Halloween Wallpapers – The Skulls & Roses 

This one weaves the beauty and the ugliness of Halloween together, making it all look simply breathtaking, an emotion we all feel this day. Our beliefs are beautiful but ahhhh, the ugly fears!

14. Halloween Cat Wallpaper – The Pumpkin & Cat Scare

This wallpaper has all the mysticism woven together: the cat, the pumpkin, and the darkness, celebrated on this day! 

Cute Halloween Wallpaper for Kids 

Moving on to the cutest in the last. The cute wallpapers are for those that are into the cutesy mode, even on the spookiest day of the year. We have them covered!

15. Cute Halloween Wallpaper – The White Pink Pumpkins

This wallpaper is about choosing your favorite kind of cuteness: small, medium, or the biggest deal to spend a cutesy spooky Halloween. 

16. Halloween Wallpaper Cute – The Woolen Pumpkins

This wallpaper will remind you of the sweet lingering chill in the autumn breeze and the nostalgia of a coziness in it. The past-memories-rush is the highest this time of the year!

17. Glow Up Halloween Wallpaper – The Edible Scare

Halloween, mentally, prepares us for the upcoming winter season. And the happiest time in the upcoming dark & gloomy days would be Christmas. This wallpaper keeps that hope alive with the edible spiders and pumpkins & the not-so-edible lit up pumpkin lights. 

18. Cozy Halloween Wallpaper – The Christmas-y Halloween

Enter an early Christmas vibe to beat the soon-to-come winter chills. The wallpaper has the idea of invoking coziness just by looking at it, when the times get colder! Get yourself a hot cup of coffee whenever you feel the chills. No, I don’t mean from that coffee boo ghost. 

19. White Cute Pumpkins Wallpaper – The Halloween Pumpkin House

This wallpaper is for your inner child, naaaaaah. Make it baby; inner baby. A cute little house and many mini (and little big) pumpkins, with cutest smiles possible. Isn’t it too pure and serene like a baby?

20. Cute Halloween Wallpaper – The Cute Spirit Halloween

This wallpaper is all of us- an inner child who loves cuteness but an adult on the outside who puts up a grown-up show. The transition is inevitable; moving on from cute to scary preferences. But given a chance, all of us would choose a mix: a cute boo ghost with roses in subtlety but a scare in the eyes and a dagger to attack!

Thanking Note to all looking for Spooky Halloween Wallpaper Ideas

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Thank you for staying this long. Wishing you a Spooky Halloween! May the scare give you the chills! 💀 

Editor’s Note

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