TAROT OF AMERICAN GOTHIC POEMS

INSPIRED BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

A tarot deck born from the darker side of American Romanticism — where poetry, symbolism, beauty and unease exist in the same frame.

Tarot of American Gothic Poems draws inspiration from the haunting atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe and the visual language of nineteenth-century American Gothic.

Across 78 cards, familiar tarot archetypes are reimagined through a world of shadowed interiors, ravens, forgotten houses, moonlit landscapes, mournful figures and the strange beauty of things that should perhaps remain unseen.

This is an author-designed collector's deck created for those who are drawn to tarot, literature, Gothic art and objects with a darker soul.

THE DECK

The edition contains 78 fully illustrated tarot cards, each created as part of one continuous American Gothic universe.

The imagery explores the emotional territory associated with Poe — obsession, longing, grief, mystery, mortality, madness, memory and the thin boundary between the real and the imagined.

Rather than simply illustrating individual poems, the deck translates their atmosphere and recurring themes into the visual language of tarot.

The result is a deck that can be read as tarot, explored as a visual narrative, or simply experienced as a collection of darkly atmospheric artworks.

A COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S SET

Your Tarot of American Gothic Poems includes:

78 Tarot Cards
A complete 78-card tarot deck featuring original artwork throughout the Major and Minor Arcana.

Full-Color Guidebook
A dedicated guidebook containing the meanings of the cards and accompanying the deck as part of the complete collection.

Velvet Card Pouch
A soft velvet pouch bearing the WOTAN mark, created to protect the cards and preserve the atmosphere of the collection when the deck is not in use.

Signature Magnetic Presentation Box
A substantial presentation box created specifically for the deck, designed as an extension of its American Gothic aesthetic and intended to make the opening of the collection part of the experience.

A TAROT OF POETRY AND SHADOW

The world of this deck is not simply dark for the sake of darkness.

It explores the places where beauty becomes unsettling.

A beautiful woman becomes a memory.
A raven becomes an omen.
A house becomes a witness.
A room becomes a state of mind.
A night becomes a threshold.

The familiar archetypes of tarot are placed inside this psychological landscape, allowing the cards to speak through both traditional symbolism and the haunting visual language of Gothic poetry.

INSPIRED BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Poe's influence is present throughout the deck — not as a literal illustrated collection of his works, but as an atmosphere and a source of recurring imagery, emotions and ideas.

Ravens, bells, shadows, mysterious chambers, lost love, haunting memories and the ever-present awareness of mortality become visual threads connecting the cards.

The deck pays homage to the emotional world that made Poe's writing so enduring while creating its own visual interpretation through the language of tarot.

EVERY EDITION IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT

WOTAN decks are produced in small batches rather than continuous mass production.

Each new edition is an opportunity to return to the artwork and introduce subtle authorial refinements.

A figure may be redrawn.
A symbolic detail may evolve.
A composition may be refined.
A visual element may appear where there was once empty space.

These changes are intentionally subtle and remain faithful to the identity of the original deck.

Because of this, a new edition is not simply an identical reprint.

Each edition represents another moment in the evolution of the artwork — giving collectors a reason to distinguish one edition from another.

The deck you own therefore belongs to a particular chapter in the continuing development of Tarot of American Gothic Poems.

MORE THAN A TAROT DECK

Every element of the collection was conceived as part of the same dark literary world.

The imagery, the tactile experience of the cards, the velvet pouch, the guidebook and the presentation box are designed to feel like fragments of a forgotten Gothic collection.

Open the box.

Turn the first card.

Let the atmosphere unfold.

Some stories are meant to be read.

Others are meant to linger.

CREATED FOR READERS AND COLLECTORS

Tarot of American Gothic Poems was created for tarot readers who are drawn to darker symbolism, for admirers of Gothic art and literature, and for collectors searching for something beyond a conventional mass-market deck.

Use it for readings.

Explore it as a visual interpretation of American Gothic poetry.

Display it as an art object.

Or keep it as a private collection of shadows, symbols and stories.

EDITION DETAILS

78 cards · Full-color guidebook · Velvet pouch · Magnetic presentation box

Small-batch production · Each edition includes subtle authorial refinements

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Created by  WOTAN

A tarot deck shaped by poetry.

A collection shaped by darkness.

An edition that continues to evolve.