Customer Reviews

Vampire Tarot Deck

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This quirky deck is attractive and great fun at first glance, but lacks sustaining interest. The vampires are drawn with appropriately dark personalities and a certain menacing panache, but there's little to tie any given image to the meanings attributed to them in the LWB (little white book). The court cards are particularly rich looking, but again, they don't relate well to their ascribed meaings: e.g., there's nothing sweet, sensitive, or generous in this Queen of Cups, despite what the LWB says. The trumps have minimal symbolic content, and the pips are best termed numerologically decorated rather than fully illustrated. Strength is VIII, Justice XI, titles follow Rider Waite Smith.

This is a novelty deck that serves quite well for playing tarrochi (a trick taking card game played in Europe, similar to whist). It's less suited for divination than the artist's much more symbolically interesting previous effort, the Fantastical Tarot, which also has a fairly heavy "goth" feel to it.

I own this tarot deck and i fell in love with it. Each card has such character and is poignantly beautiful. I did a reading for a friend with it and she kept commenting on the eyes of the characters. You look at them and they seem to be looking at you. There is something deeply moving about the cards. I would look through them all over and over as each one is a work of art. My favourites were the sun, the hermit and the fool. I adored this deck because it wasnt all flowers and smiles. It was a bit gothic, striking and different. I wouldn't say it's dark and evil. It's just elaborate and gothic looking. People have long held a fascination with vampires because of their mystique and we all want to know what lurks in the shadows. In this deck, the vampires come out of the shadows. I would be picky with decks and never had much love for the traditional raider waite as i found it "boring". This is eccentric, alluring and different. I would really recommend it to anyone looking for an individualistic tarot deck. Let the eyes draw you in.

Being both an ongoing student of the Tarot and a writer of vampire fiction, I purchased this deck on the strength of the cover art and the theme. As I opened the deck and perused each card, I could not suppress a nefarious chuckle or two. Serious vampire lovers will surely adore this deck, but it may be a bit much for the uninitiated. Not for the faint of heart!

My brother and I were browsing online, looking for THE Tarot deck. Anyone into this sort of thing would probably know what I'm talking about. The perfect deck, the one that calls out to you, that seems to cry out "YOU!"

So I saw this one, the Vampire Tarot Deck, and my brother found the Fantastical one, and we were spellbound. At the time, we just liked them because of the artwork and the energies we felt off them (yes, even through the internet we could tell they were right), and when we looked here on Amazon[.com], we found that they were actually sister decks! That clinched it, we decided then and there that we were going to order these right away!

the vampire tarot is like the dark brother of the well known rider -waite deck.....however not as cryptic as the thoth tarot which is too dark and forboding .....cool - austere and thought provoking this mystic prefers it to all (alternative ) decks reccomended and more than happy it is in my collection if you want rich colors and meaning and a sardonic take on the white bread -habitral of life then get this deck.....peace K

This deck has a powerful energy. In the first reading I tried, I immediately tuned with the cards. They give stunning and spine-tingling answers! I thought it was a delicious and dark idea to substitute the water element for blood. The art work is chilling.

While Tarot card divinations should be done with seriousness and even reverence, one should also enjoy working with the particular deck of one's choice. The vampire images of this deck make it the most fun deck I have ever worked with.

I devised my own 156 card meanings while using the gist of the card meanings offered by Nathalie Hertz as my starting point. One interesting feature of this deck is that some of the pictures force one to think outside the box, so to speak. In devilish fashion, for example, the meaning of The Devil is not of things evil. Hertz's devil represents things strong, vibrant, and sexual. Other cards in this deck necessitate approaching the card meanings from a more unique point of view as well.

For me, these unique differences of meaning result in more insightful and helpful divinations than I had been getting through other Tarot decks. I have been fascinated with other decks, but after a while the novelty seems to wear off. By contrast, I seem never to get tired of using this Vampire Tarot.

What do you thing of when you think Vampire? Blood? Sex? Seduction? All of the above? This deck takes a look into the lives and hearts of vampires. I am unsure of any particular mythology ascribed to by the author and the artist, but the imagery and symbolism paint a beautiful realm of dark, forbidden and unappologetic pleasures.

I find this deck mesmerizing and accurate. The blood element may freak some people out, but it really isn't as macabre as it seems. The blood in this case is meant to represent life, so this deck really gets its message across in a different and powerful way.
I often take them out just to look at them. True the cards don't have a zillion things happening on them, but I find those kinds of decks taxing and needlessly complex. We aren't stupid, we don't need a thousand tiny details to understand what the cards are telling us. What I really appreciate about the vampire tarot is that, unlike so many other decks where the characters are distant and passive, in this deck the characters appear to acknowledge your presence and seem to be active participants in the reading. Another great thing about the vampire tarot is that the booklet provided with the cards explains the symbolism of the artwork of all 78 cards as well as their upright and reversed meanings. The cards are also very well glossed, and are a very good size to shuffle normally.
I highly recommend this deck to anyone ready to graduate from simply reading the cards to really understanding and working with the cards.

When I first bought this deck,I bought it mostly cuz I'm a huge fan of Anne Rice and all the vampires in her books. I never thought I'd ever use it for reading. Upon looking at and working with this deck, however, I changed my mind. The images are beautiful and gothic, and this is now my most frequently used deck because it gives the most accurate readings. I liked it a lot better than the Robin Wood tarot, which is so popular but which I find so ANNOYING because it's all happy and smiley and...puke. And it's definitely more colorful and interesting than the Rider-Waite. This is definitely an excellent deck, if you don't mind the whole blood thing :).