Description
The Pulp Tarot is a mashup of mysticism and mid-century kitsch, fusing the structure of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot with the drama and iconography of vintage pulp magazines. Created by collage artist and writer Todd Alcott, each card draws on the golden age of lurid paperbacks, noir cinema, dime-store horror, and silver screen scandal to recast the archetypes in bold, unexpected ways.
These are tarot cards as technicolor storyboards. The High Priestess might be a masked vigilante; the Lovers, a pair of star-crossed con artists. The art is deliberately brash, soaked in nostalgia and irony, yet it manages to deliver surprisingly sharp emotional clarity.
Whether you’re a fan of genre fiction, a pop art collector, or a tarot reader who likes your spreads with a side of pulp grit, this deck is a fast-talking, hard-boiled companion with style to spare. It doesn’t just interpret your narrative—it reinvents it.
