Anne Stokes Gothic
Dark gothic fantasy tarot by illustrator Anne Stokes with Dungeons-and-Dragons aesthetic.
creator unknown · 2011
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The record
Anne Stokes is a fantasy art illustrator whose work has graced everything from book covers to calendars and quilt covers, and is famously associated with Dungeons and Dragons play books. The Anne Stokes Gothic Tarot is a dark deck in the tradition of the Black Tarot and the Favole Tarot. This deck uses pre-existing artworks chosen to represent or fit the major Arcana and court cards, as a consequence there are some unusual concepts in this deck - The Hanged Man is depicted as a coiling Medusa, The Tower is shown as a fairy clutching a huge spider, The Chariot - a Dragon spitting flames. The Anne Stokes Tarot, which is in truth more dark fantasy (or possibly the Hobbit goes to hell) than Gothic is populated by unicorns, elves, fairies, dragons, grim reapers, and the occasional vampire - all living in harmony in an all-purpose Medieval castle. The Minor Arcana is not illustrated but rather uses pip cards of somewhat grim bent. The suits are given as the traditional Cups, Swords, Wands, and Pentacles But they are illustrated with some rather contrived (to be Gothic) symbolism. The Cups are shown as a silver chalice filled with blood and the numbers denoted by bats, a glowing red penta
The cards
