Outdoor Halloween lanterns are usually made from tin and have a handle so that they can hang from a shepherds hook, tree branch or eave. They can be illuminated with a tealight or candle for a glow that illuminates from the cut out portions of the lantern. Lanterns are so much more festive now, taking on the face or figure of many of the iconic Halloween figures, including pumpkins, ghosts, black cats, witch faces, skeletons, or just a classically shaped lantern with images on vellum that glows with the light from within!