Announced March 12th:

Halloween has long been a holiday that lets us delight in the things that scare us. With the approach of autumn, Spooky Silhouettes stamps will offer fun, frightful scenes that symbolize this annual celebration. Four stamps feature digital illustrations in which traditional Halloween motifs are rendered as black silhouettes in eerily backlit windows. Artist Tyler Lang created the artwork. Art Director Greg Breeding designed the stamps.

No date or first-day city were given. Further updates will appear below, in order announced.

Updated December 5th:
The Scott catalogue numbers for this issue are:
5420 (55¢) Spooky Silhouettes – Cat and Raven
5421 (55¢) Spooky Silhouettes – Ghosts
5422 (55¢) Spooky Silhouettes – Spider and Web
5423 (55¢) Spooky Silhouettes – Bats
a. Block of 4, #5420-5423

Updated September 26th:
Here are the first day postmarks for this issue:The Digital Color Postmark for this issue measures 2.37″ x 1.49″ The B&W pictorial postmark measures 2.96″ x 1.48″

On October 11, 2019, the United States Postal Service will issue the Spooky Silhouettes stamps (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail rate) in four designs, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 572200). The stamps will go on sale nationwide October 11, 2019, and must not be sold or canceled before the first-day-of-issue. The Spooky Silhouettes pane of 20 stamps may not be split and the stamps may not be sold individually.

Halloween has long been a holiday that lets us delight in the things that scare us. As autumn approaches, these new stamps offer fun, frightful scenes that symbolize this annual celebration. Four stamps feature digital illustrations in which traditional Halloween motifs are rendered as black silhouettes in eerily backlit windows. Artist Tyler Lang created the artwork. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamps.

Availability to Post Offices: Item 572200 Spooky Silhouettes (Forever Priced at the First-Class Mail Rate) PSA Pane of 20 Stamps. Stamp Fulfillment Services will make an automatic push distribution to Post Offices of a quantity to cover approximately 30 days of sales.

How to Order the First-Day-of-Issue Postmark:
Customers have 120 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase new stamps at their local Post Office™ or at The Postal Store® website at usps.com/shop. They must affix the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes (to themselves or others), and place them in a larger envelope addressed to:

FDOI – Spooky Silhouettes Stamps
USPS Stamp Fulfillment Services
8300 NE Underground Drive, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64144-9900

After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service™ will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark up to a quantity of 50. There is a 5-cent charge for each additional postmark over 50. The deadline is February 11, 2020.

Technical Specifications:

Issue: Spooky Silhouettes Stamps
Item Number: 572200
Denomination & Type of Issue: First-Class Mail Forever
Format: Pane of 20 (4 designs)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: October 11, 2019, Milford, NH 03055
Art Director: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Designer: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Typographer: Greg Breeding, Charlottesville, VA
Artist: Tyler Lang, Milwaukie, OR
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Flexographic, Rainbow Foil
Printer: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Press Type: Arsoma EM 410
Stamps per Pane: 20
Print Quantity: 40,000,000 stamps
Paper Type: Nonphosphored Type III, Block Tag
Adhesive Type: Pressure-sensitive
Processed at: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. (APU)
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.73 x 1.05 in./18.542 x 26.67 mm
Stamp Size (w x h): 0.91 x 1.19 in./23.114 x 30.226 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h): 5.3625 x 6.5 in./136.208 x 165.1 mm
Press Sheet Size (w x h): 21.45 x 13.375 in./ 544.83 x 339.725 mm
Colors: PMS Cool Grey 6, PMS 266C Purple, PMS 032C Red, PMS 1585C Orange, PMS 388C Yellow, Black
Plate Size: 160 stamps per revolution
Plate Number: “P” followed by six (6) single digits
Marginal Markings:
Front: Header: Spooky Silhouettes • Plate numbers in bottom two corners
Back: ©2019 USPS • USPS logo • Two barcodes (572200) • Promotional text • Plate position diagram

Updated September 10th:

These stamps will be issued October 11th in Milford, NH.

[press release]
Cats, Bats and Spiders, Oh My!
Spooky Silhouettes Forever Stamps to be Released in Time for Halloween

WHAT: The Postal Service issues four Forever stamps in time for Halloween. The Spooky Silhouettes stamps feature digital illustrations with Halloween motifs rendered as black silhouettes in eerily backlit windows. The images include a cat with an arched back beneath a raven perched on a bare tree branch, all against a yellowish-green background; two ghosts against an orange background; a spider and a web against a red background; and three bats against a purple background.

News of the stamps is being shared with the hashtag #HalloweenStamps.

WHO: Marc McCrery, vice president of mail entry and payment technology, U.S. Postal Service

WHEN: Friday, Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. EDT

WHERE: Milford Pumpkin Festival
Emerson Park Stage
6 Mont Vernon St.
Milford, NH 03055

RSVP: Dedication ceremony attendees are encouraged to RSVP at usps.com/silhouettes.

WHY: As autumn approaches, these new stamps offer fun, frightful scenes that symbolize Halloween. With customs and traditions that vary widely by community, Halloween now inspires parades and carnivals, corn mazes, haunted houses, neighborhood and school parties, pumpkin festivals, and even pumpkin catapulting. Halloween remains a much-anticipated celebration of the macabre in the face of approaching winter.

Artist Tyler Lang worked with art director and designer Greg Breeding to create these stamps, which will be available for purchase Oct. 11. Additional details will be provided before the ceremony date.