The cursed crescent moon is rising

The world of the Sphere is full of different scary legends. One of them tells about the Cursed crescent, consisting of thousands of pumpkins with terrible grimaces. It is said that he appears in the sky at the moment when the boundary between the Spheres is thinning and the horrors from one world seep into another.
 
Most consider this story to be fiction. That's what Lyra thought, too, until she went to the forest in search of her missing brother.
 
It was dark. The girl made her way through the thicket. Branches whipped her in the face, and the smell of damp hung in the air. Suddenly, the girl felt someone's gaze. She raised her head and froze in horror, because there was a Cursed crescent moon hanging over her.
 
Thousands of pumpkins looked at her and grinned. "We're harvesting forgotten souls..." they whispered in unison, "and you're next."
 
Lyra wanted to scream, but she didn't have time: the crescent moon flashed with yellow light, and the darkness swallowed the girl.
 
The next morning, my brother returned home. At the threshold he found a small pumpkin. Inside, among the fibrous pulp, lay the pale face of his sister. Her eyes were wide open, and her blackened lips were twisted into a terrible grin.