The wrong house.

[Poserpanda]

This house doesn't look like it is optional to even reach the front door. Several signs sit stacked against four frighteningly fractured bricks.
But maybe...that bag?
The spooky bag? Perhaps their house isn't spooky, but the owners leave candy outside the front door! Everyone can be extra safe, if the candy is outside the house!
There looks to be cotton candy coming out of it!
Closer to the bag, you see a hole near the bottom corner. Instead of being full of cotton candy, cotton stuffing is softly falling to the ground.
You've been tricked!
The light you bring only reflects the empty lantern glass. There's no wick, nor does it smell of oil. It smells dusty, as if the last place it sat was in the house's attic; since last Halloween.