Bohemian Gothic
Dark gothic tarot exploring shadow, nightmare, and supernatural wisdom.
by Alex Ukolov, Karen Mahony · Magic Realist Press · 1960
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The record
Explore the shadow sides of life; the wisdom and truth that may lie in nightmare, dark imagination, and the fear of the supernatural. The Bohemian Gothic Tarot is the latest deck from publishing house Magic Realist Press, and their first with a dark and Gothic-inspired theme. Artistically, the style of the cards is based on nineteenth century studio portraits and German romantic photographic postcards. It was in the eighteenth century that Gothic began, with the book of The Castle of Otranto which was written in 1764 by Walpole, though its most well-known for the revival in Victorian times, thanks to Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. The cards arent linked with specific Gothic tales or characters, but Karen Mahony and Alex Ukolov have blended typical aspects of the genre to create an incredibly atmospheric deck. Its designed to a work on a subconscious level, provoking the imagination and tickling at the mind rather than being outright freaky or gory. There are a couple of cards that tend towards a horror movie, but generally they rely on people with ghostly skin tones and variously disturbing facial expressions, inhabiting scenes with stormy skies, shadowy co
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