First published 2016
This anthology emerges from an unusual creative experiment. The publisher 13Thirty Books assembled twenty-six accomplished writers and devised a singular method for story assignment. Each author's name was called out while a tarot deck was shuffled. A single card was drawn and handed to that writer. The card and its mystical properties became their only creative prompt. The deck was reshuffled for each subsequent draw. The resulting collection spans all twenty-two Major Arcana cards plus four from the Minor Arcana. Award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors including Heather Graham transformed these mystical symbols into dark fiction. Each story interprets its assigned tarot card through supernatural events, mysterious characters, and shadowy circumstances. The anthology demonstrates how the same symbolic framework can generate vastly different narratives when filtered through diverse creative minds.
Genres: anthologies, mystery, horror, supernatural, paranormal, dark-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: anthology, dark-academia, diverse-creative-minds
498 pages · Paperback · 13Thirty Books