The Halloween Tarot Deck & Book Set: 78-Card Deck [With Book]

by Kipling West and Karin Lee

Black cats, ghosts, and jack o'lanterns offer enchantment and light-hearted perspectives in this lively tarot deck and book set. Book contains 148 pages, illustrated. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572810343
• ISBN13: 9781572810341
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: U.S. Games Systems
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 4.8" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Too Much Fun!!!

The Halloween Tarot Deck is amazing. I am a huge fan of hallowween and halloween art. The illustrations on the cards are a lot of fun; very whimsicle and cute. The book is well written. It offers full details on the symbology of ecah card along with the divinatory and reverse meanings. The author also goes into the history of halloween and how it is celebrated in different cultures. The author also tries to offer some insight as to how certain images have become associated with halloween like jack o' lanterns and black cats. Overall, it's a heck of a lot of fun, but also very educational! Buy it!

Don't Pass It Up!

I kept blowing this deck off; but then I realized. Tarot. Halloween. Duh. Two favorite things in one, with a "classic" approach. I looked a bit more into this set; everyone all over the Internet has given the Halloween Tarot great reviews. When I saw such things as the Bride of Frankenstein, the Werewolf and a Hearse for the Chariot, I knew I had to have it. If you are interested in Halloween from a "Nightmare before Christmas" point of view, are just learning Tarot and/or prefer a Rider-Waite background, then this deck is for you! The book that comes with it gives a little more details to the cards and a history of Halloween. I was impressed with the History the authors gave us. It sounds like they put some thought into it than just regurgitating stuff outta books. The author and illustrator both love Halloween. I confess I found the cat on every card a bit tedious, but I know I am a bit picky---get it before it goes out of print!

Halloween whimsy for the whole year through!!

The Halloween Tarot Submitted 5/17/01Halloween whimsy all through the year! Just like Ms. West, the creator of the Halloween tarot, I LOVE Halloween. My birthday is in October, I love dressing up in costumes, one of my favorite movies is "Nightmare Before Christmas", and I even got MARRIED on Halloween! (Hey, if you're gonna do something scary, might as well do it on the scariest nite of the year!!) So, when I found Ms. West's deck, of course I had to get it; do not pass Go, do not collect $200.The cards are very well drawn with crisp lines and clear, bright colors. Not surprisingly, black and orange are main colors of this deck, though white, blue and red are prominently featured as well. The figures of the tarot are drawn from a number of different Halloweenish sources: costumed trick-or-treaters, movie monsters, scarecrows, and the European vegetable people of a century ago. The Empress, for example, is the Bride of Frankenstein, the Hermit, a mad scientist brewing up strange concoctions. Temperance is a young witch pouring potions and the Fool is a gleeful clown in motley. None of these images are frightening or spooky, so the overall effect is more of childhood play than of Halloween terror. In this respect, I think this makes the deck more open and playful to the querent than other more gothic or "serious" decks.The symbolism of the cards in both Major and Minor Arcana is very similar to that of one of the most well known decks, the Rider-Waite. This makes it a good choice for the beginning-to-intermediate reader who is just learning all the symbols of the deck. The Minor Arcana have had their suits changed a bit to suit the holiday, pumpkins represent pentacles, bats represent swords, ghosts represent cups and imps (small, red devil creatures) represent wands in the more traditional decks. Still, even with these changes the symbols are very clear and easy to read. What's more, each card of both the Major and Minor Arcana have a black cat on it; he acts as a sort of touchstone or common thread through the deck that ties everything together very nicely.I always recommend that the absolute beginner start with the Rider-Waite, simply because it's one of the most well known decks and most books about the tarot use the Rider to illustrate the cards. However, even as a beginner, I found myself able to use the Halloween tarot just as easily (if not MORE easily in my case--the Rider sometimes seems too serious for my blood) as any other deck. I've also found that people who are leery around tarot cards loosen up when they see these fun, playful cards: it seems more like a childhood game than a heavy-duty inquiry, and that allows them to relax a bit and let the reading resonate with them more than they might have otherwise allowed themselves to.You don't have to be a nut over Halloween and collect pumpkins, skeletons and black cats like Ms. West (or me!) to enjoy these cards, nor do you have to wait until October to use them. They'

Like "WOW"!

Finally! A humorous look at the traditional Tarot. And one that can be read very easily, at that. I love this deck! The colors are bright & very cool images à la Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas. Get this: Morticia Addams as the High Priestess & Gomez as the Magician. The Mummy as the Hierophant & The Bride of Frankenstein as The Empress. Is there anything in this deck not to like? Perhaps. For instance, I don't care much for the cheesy rendition of The lovers. Count Dracula & the Damsel in Distress. They could have picked a better archetype for that card. Overall, this card is the best thing since sliced bread~~~only better....MUCH better! Halloween is here to stay:)))

A Great Deck-- one of the best I've seen

This Tarot is based on the Waite tarot, so it has all the standard "archetypes" of Tarot readings. The colors are great, the images are great, and it's a fun, fun deck. I am a collector of Tarot decks & a Tarot reader and I think that this is my new favorite! I just wish that I had bought it here, much cheaper! Get the book & deck set, so that you can read more about it...