The Lovecraft Tarot

The Lovecraft Tarot is a unique version of the standard 78-card Tarot deck created and self-published by Daryl L. Hutchinson. A second edition was published in 2002 by the now-defunct Lovecraftian small press Mythos Books.
==Overview==
The Lovecraft Tarot deck contains 78 cards. These cards correspond to the Major and Minor Arcana of the traditional tarot.
The Minor Arcana ("suits") of The Lovecraft Tarot are the Suits of Man, Artifacts, Tomes, and Sites. These replace the traditional wands, pentacles, swords and cups of the "normal" Tarot variants.
The Major Arcana or Trumps have all been replaced by Great Old Ones, creatures and characters from the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of the Cthulhu Mythos. All the artwork is by the creator, artist Hutchinson, who produced them as a labour of love. 
The cards are printed in duotone sepia and white giving a very unusual "pulp" and occult appearance to the set.
The Lovecraft Tarot comes with an 80 page book by Eric Friedman, to provide an introduction to the unique Lovecraft Tarot cards. This book also gives a detailed explanation of each Major Arcana card in this deck and how this card relates to the Cthulhu Mythos, and where applicable to its corresponding card in the traditional tarot. For people intending to actually use these cards for fortune telling there are also more traditional explanations of each card's "meaning" in upright and reversed position.
The descriptions for the Major Arcana also include quotes from the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop (for the "Yig" card) and one quote from August Derleth (for the "Ithaqua" card).
==Contents ==
The complete set of tarot cards in this deck are:
===Major Arcana===
*Azathoth
*Nyarlathotep
*Yog-Sothoth
*Shub Niggurath
*Hastur
*Cthulhu
* Lavinia 
*Ithaqua 
*Shoggoth
*Great Race of Yith
*Hounds of Tindalos
*Mi-Go
*Deep One
*Ghoul
*Old One 
*Tsathoggua
*R'lyeh Rising
*Nodens
*Night Gaunt
*Yig the Serpent God
*Cthulhu Awakens
*The Crawling Chaos
===Minor Arcana===
====The Suit of Man:====
* H. P. Lovecraft
* Randolph Carter
*Inspector Legrasse
*Charles Dexter Ward
*Erich Zann
*Herbert West
*Captain Obed Marsh
*Wizard Noah Whateley
*Wilbur Whateley
* Wizard Edward Hutchinson
*Dr. Henry Armitage
*Crawford Tillinghast
*Harley Warren
*Keziah Mason
====The Suit of Artifacts:====
*Star Stone
*The Colour Out of Space
*Silver Key 
*The Shining Trapezohedron
*Guardian of Kadath
*The Yellow Sign
*EOD Vestments
*Resonator
*Pickman's Model 
*Mi-Go Brain Cylinder
*Bokrug 
*Stone of Nepemiah Derby
*Liao the Plutonian Drug
====The Suit of Tomes ====
*Necronomicon
* De Vermis Mysteriis 
*Unaussprechlichen Kulten
* The R'lyeh Texts
*The Dhol Chants
*Libre D'Eibon
* The King in Yellow
*Cultes Des Ghouls
*The Pnakotic Manuscripts
*The Eltdown Shards
*The People of the Monolith 
*The Ponape Scriptures
*Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
*The Black Book
====The Suit of Sites:====
*Yuggoth
*Irem City of Pillars
*Plateau of Leng
*Whateley Farmhouse
*The Witch House
*The Mountains of Madness
*St. Toad's
*Innsmouth
*Kadath
*Exham Priory
*Sentinel Hill
*EOD Temple
*Federal Hill
*Arkham
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