Tarot Diaries - Volume I Cups, Affairs of the Heart: A Collection of Romantic, Mystical, and Gothic Short Stories Inspired by the Tarot’s Suit of Cups — Tales of Love, Illusion, and Desire.

Author: Vale, Lucien

Number Of Pages: 152

EAN: 9781954921245

Release Date: 17-10-2025

Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Details: Every card tells a secret. Every secret has a price.
Tarot Diaries — Volume I: Cups, Affairs of the Heart gathers eleven darkly romantic tales exploring the mysteries of love through the watery lens of the tarot’s Suit of Cups.
From 1950s Paris to fog-shrouded Venice and the glittering hotels of Monte Carlo, these stories trace the fine line between passion and illusion, faith and desire. Each stands alone, yet together they reveal a haunting portrait of the human heart—its beauty, its ruin, and its endless capacity to dream.
At the heart of The Tarot Diaries lies an ambitious vision: to bring every card of the tarot to life through fiction. Across upcoming volumes, the series will unfold like a full deck of human experience—seventy-eight stories in all, each one inspired by a card’s meaning, mystery, and mood.
The four elemental suits form the backbone of the series:
✦ Cups — The Realm of Emotion: Love, longing, heartbreak, and devotion.
✦ Swords — The Realm of Truth: Betrayal, justice, and the sharp edge of desire.
✦ Pentacles — The Realm of Beauty and Power: Art, ambition, and the cost of creation.
✦ Wands — The Realm of Fire and Spirit: Passion, inspiration, and transformation.
And woven between them, the Major Arcana—the twenty-two universal archetypes that rule the tarot—will appear as longer, standalone stories exploring fate, faith, and the divine. Together, the volumes form a literary tarot deck: seventy-eight windows into the soul.
For readers of The Night Circus, Carmen Maria Machado, and The Lover’s Dictionary, this lyrical anthology blends gothic atmosphere, romantic longing, and tarot mysticism.
✦ Inside You’ll Find:
• Forbidden loves and ghostly reflections
• Glamour, betrayal, and the price of devotion
• Emotional, poetic storytelling steeped in symbolism
• Stories connected by fate, memory, and the eternal language of the cards
✦ Perfect For:
Fans of literary short fiction, tarot enthusiasts, dark romantics, and readers drawn to stories where the heart is both question and answer.
Step inside The Tarot Diaries and draw your first card—Cups, the realm of emotion.
What will the heart reveal?