Halloween Greeting Cards

If there is ever a time for the beauty of ugliness and the delight of terror, Halloween must be it. The best Halloween greetings are often the worst — and vice versa. E-cards can meet your every Halloween greeting card need, however sick or pretty. Here are my favorite e-card sites to compose and send Halloween greetings.

More cute than scary, Halloween be merry!

Turn away evil spirits with a skull and crossbones, or just have some Halloween fun with this e-card.

Want to send really frightening Halloween greetings this year?

The hidden graveyard is headed for a terrifying — and unforgettable — return to memory this Halloween.

Beware of this stationery.

Two skeletons perform airy Halloween calisthenics in this bloody Halloween e-card.

Jack-o'-Lantern and kid are enjoying a nice Halloween. Only the kid looks a bit frightened...

Treat the cat well or it will play scary tricks to a pumpkin!

Who said abandoned houses were empty?

Is that a ghost in your email? Eww!

Treat me well with my lovely Victorian Halloween stationery. Please.

What's cooking in the witch's kettle for Halloween?

There is nothing funny about Happy Halloween.

When the spooky and the romantic collide, it's Halloween.

I dare not write emails with this scary e-card, not even Halloween emails...

Don't be scared. Be very scared.

A giant bat, what can it mean? Lest you forget: it's Halloween!

A macabre dance of pumpkin heads rings in a wonderfully frightening Halloween.

It is not clear what the black raven is doing on the foggy graveyard, but it cannot possibly mean anything good — except good Halloween stationery for your Outlook Express emails, of course.

Send glowing, animated and frightening wishes for a Happy Halloween.

The house is brightly lit. But the "Music of the Night" is playing, and spooky things are taking place.

Enter the "Horror" section of 123Greetings.com with caution, but send those frightening cards freely! Of course you can also choose from less shocking and more funny, friendly, or nice cards.

No cruel cards at AmericanGreetings.com, but paying members can select from a large collection of high quality Halloween greetings, from funny cards to Halloween invitations, and more.

From apple bobbing over the mirror game to a children's dreadful fright, Antique Halloween E-Cards brings all the glory, fun and magnificence of vintage Halloween cards to any email inbox.

Should Halloween cards be nice? Should Halloween cards be cute? Should Halloween cards be beautiful? Should they, in sum, be harmless? No. BirthdaAlarm.com's Halloween greetings are all the right scary creepy shocking things.

If all the ready-made cards are not right for you and certainly not right for your friends, you can carve your own Halloween pumpkin, funny or frightening, at Bloompetals and send it via email.

Great Halloween email greeting cards with an environmental conscience. Part of Care2's revenue is donated to environmental organizations.

An angry pumpkin and a hapless mouse; then a scary Halloween costume in ghost town: Halloween at carlsenCards.

Send scares like it's 1999: from the original e-cards.com, simple, charming and scary Halloween e-cards.

Send the Guatemaltec devil mask, a demonic witch or a scary cat for Halloween, all accompanied by fittingly frightening music.

There are larger collections of Halloween greeting cards, but those you find at eCardica.com are all done in a very nice way.

It's a fine collection of mostly animated and generally scary (though nice) Halloween greeting cards that paying members of Egreetings.com can choose from.

Haunted cards and haunted castles, frightening green and frightening greetings. This and much more makes Halloween e-cards sent from FunUtilities.com so scary.

Three-dimensional ghosts scare three-dimensional people, but it's not all doom and gloom at GreetingSpring for Halloween.

You can do more than send a nicely done, slightly scare and overall great Halloween e-card from GroupCard: you can also invite friends to sign it, or have the greeting delivered as an actual, physical card.

Zombies, skulls and other frightening characters. It's really not a pretty Halloween at Hallmark.com, but a good one.

Regarding Halloween... how about some spooky, spooky greetings? How about some Happy Halloween wishes? Regards.com has a big collection of images and animations to select from.

A scary number of the 1001 postcards are great (and often animated) Halloween greeting cards.

Put festive and spooky and colorful and scary and digital Halloween art on your desktop — or in an email, and send it to a friend.

If you make it past some not-so-inspired cards, you can find simple, but artistic Halloween greeting cards at Ze-Card.

Don't be shy... reveal your deepest, darkest feelings with Halloween cards from Deepestfeelings.com. Of course, there are also cards for the lighter, funnier side of Halloween.

Only paid members can send Halloween cards from Blue Mountain, but the big selection of wonderful greeting cards is well worth paying for. Take a look, at least.

Heavily animated and richly colored, that's what the cards from greeting-cards.com are — perfect for a spooky Halloween.

An all-around assault of spookiness awaits at atmgreetings.com (but you and your recipients can have some pumpkin fun, too).

It can be a bit cumbersome to compose your card with so many options available -- but it is also the options, the selection of lovely Vintage Halloween cards in particular, that makes it all worthwhile.

If you're looking for really ugly greeting cards — and I bet that's what you do if you want to send them for Halloween — try your luck at USAGreetings. Their Halloween collection is truly shocking.

While a frog tries to hypnotize you out of Halloween, indulge deep into great and diverse Halloween greeting designs from Leanin' Tree.

Why scare with mere images or staggering video when you can startle with smooth video from HDgreetings and add your own pictures to the Halloween greetings, too?

They're scary, but in a friendly manner; they're ugly, but in a pleasing way: the Halloween e-cards from HiGreetings.com.

Many of Hipster Cards' Halloween greetings are pretty scary, but some are just pretty and a few even friendly.

Halloween is a cat and mouse and bat and Jack'o'lantern game at Jacquie Lawson — a frightening game, of course. The other fantastically drawn, animated and melodized cards are even spookier...

It's horrible, awful and out of control: Halloween at JibJab is not only scary but also funny — in a scaring manner. You can even put your own face in the cards for that little, well, extra.

They're sweet, smiling and zappy, the cards and characters at Katie's. Don't let that deceive you, however. It's still Halloween, however beautiful and charming the greetings may be.

There's quite a bit of fun in Halloween at MyFunCards.

Cat and pumpkin have ghastly ghostly friends at Ojolie, and they all let you send marvelously done Halloween greetings.

In for a Halloweener? Send it and other neatly painted and nicely animated Halloween greetings from Pamela Gladding Ecards.

Happy or "boo"? Trick or treat? Plaxo has a variety of Halloween cards on offer to be sent easily to Plaxo contacts — or any email address, of course.

Many of the Halloween cards at The Perfect Greetings use multiple media to deliver their spooky greetings.

Respectable Halloween greetings need not be scary. Wizardry, carving and tattily wrapped Tatty Teddy proves it.

Spooky-boo and Horror-ween! It's not only words that bend at VerveCards, of course: colors, images, messages and fun follow suit for enticing Halloween greetings.

From an era gone by, these motives from Victorian Halloween greeting cards will jump right into your heart — and into the hearts of those to whom you send email greetings using them.

A sheer endless supply of gorgeous and old Halloween greeting cards awaits at CardCow.com.

Bats, tigers, crocodiles and spiders: even if you find none of these animals particularly scary, they make great Halloween greeting cards.

Brew up something, umm, special, deliver a ghould dude, and send more frightening Halloween greeting cards from Yahoo! and American Greetings.