Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders

The title does honest work: Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders is exactly the deck the Wednesday Addams generation would hope for, the actress whose dark-role career the review traces collaborating with author Minerva Siegel and artist Felipe Flores on a 2024 gothic tarot. Celebrity decks usually borrow a name; this one borrows a persona with genuine gothic credentials, Ricci's screen lineage being arguably part of how her generation met the aesthetic at all. Siegel's tarot authorship keeps the structure serious under the star billing, and Flores's art carries the cat-and-spiders sensibility, domestic gothic, cute and unsettling in deliberate balance. As celebrity collaborations go it is unusually organic, closer to the King Khan model than to licensing. It suits Ricci's fans across the Addams-to-Yellowjackets span, gothic readers of the playful persuasion, celebrity-deck collectors sorting sincere from cynical, and the Wednesday-era newcomers the deck plainly welcomes. The spiders, one assumes, are load-bearing.