Dark Tales from the Tarot

A series of flash fiction horrors, every other month, guided by the fateful hands of the tarot.

How it works: We shuffle a standard Rider-Waite tarot deck, cut it, and draw a single card off the top. The prompt for the month is then based on the given card’s symbolic meaning. Naturally, since this is a horror writing prompt, we gravitate toward darker interpretations of the tarot.

Our use of the tarot is not meant to be understood as a divination practice, but rather as a means of incorporating symbolism and random chance into the act of horror fiction inspiration and writing.

Winning stories (one per submission window) will be published below. Interested in submitting? Read our submission guidelines.