Anne Stokes Gothic Tarot (Anne Stokes Collection)

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This exquisitely crafted deck offers a compelling gothic twist on the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith suits. A class production, beautiful, dramatic but delicate, making this underworld a place of alluring mystery. The Dark Goddess Tarot features 78 goddesses and mythical women, figures who might be considered dark, shadow or challenging.

Their extensive dark product line offers books, calendars, t-shirts, posters, tarot decks, and music cds. It's exclusively designed by Anne Stokes and includes special texts for a better comprehension of the cards. The Dragon Age Inquisition Tarot is a fully-illustrated 78 card deck based on the characters and artwork of the role-playing video game of the same name. The Anne Stokes Legends Tarot is a 78-card tarot deck with illustrations chosen from the work of the prolific fantasy artist of the same name.The cards are dark and romantic but somewhat depressing - even the Sun card has a feeling of bleakness. Many of the scenes on the majors feature grinning skeletons, while the court have a dark fantasy feel. R. Giger's dark imaginings (like the aliens of the movie of the same name) will like this deck, but it may be difficult for others. Find your fortune in the Dark Realm with these Gothic Tarot Cards, available from Gothic and Fantasy wholesaler Nemesis Now, from the mind of world-renowned and Fantasy artist, Anne Stokes. The 78 black and white, hand-drawn cards each have a serpent present on the card, and are deliberately simply styled.

There are also 15 instruction cards included with the deck, explaining the I Ching and the hexagram meanings. There are 54 square picture cards with photographic collage illustrations and 54 text cards, and it's designed to be used by picking one card of each type. The Barbieri Tarot is a vibrant, powerfully illustrated 78 card deck from Italian artist and master of the fantasy genre, Paolo Barbieri. The art style is modelled on that of Dutch artist Hieronymous Bosch and has elements from his paintings.It's an homage to children's illustrator Stephen Gammell, who was famous for his unsettling images in a series of horror short stories. The Anne Stokes Gothic Tarot is a dark deck in the tradition of the Black Tarot and the Favole Tarot. It features large-eyed faeries, ghosts and angels that are reminiscent of Blythe dolls, each with a slightly shadowy personality or theme.

The Graven Images Oracle is a 'system of prediction' deck of 71 cards, depicting cemetery imagery and interesting photographs of gravestones and monuments. His publishing company Monolith Graphics was launched in 1991 and has since become a world leader in gothic-themed products, with numerous clients across the US and in a over a dozen other nations throughout the world. The 78 card deck is designed to give the feel of being of Lovecraft's universe, as used by one of his characters. The large size 'portfolio' edition - approximately five by ten inches - has cards bound together with thin, tearable plastic binding, but can be separated for use. While the deck has lushly illustrated majors, it follows the European tradition in the minors and has repetitive pip cards instead of tarot scenes.The Vampire Tarot draws together tarot, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and vampire myths over the ages. This deck was created over twenty years ago and things have come a long way in the tarot world since then.