Killstar Tarot

Published August 20, 2026 • Updated August 20, 2026

A gothic tarot pack by KILLSTAR with skeleton figures, black cards and a silver, light-catching finish.

Killstar Tarot Cards is a macabre tarot pack from KILLSTAR, a Brighton-based dark alternative lifestyle brand built around gothic imagery and individual self-expression.

The theologian Roger Latham describes goth as a culture that “co-opts religious language and iconography to engage existential themes of darkness, suffering, and death”. KILLSTAR applies these themes to its fashion, packaging and tarot cards, which follow the Rider-Waite-Smith sequence.

The box shows the phrase “DEATH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING”. The back also says “Mors Vincit Omnia” (“Death conquers all”), adding to the deck’s death-themed atmosphere. KILLSTAR describes the pack as custom, holographic and branded.

The fronts have a reflective holographic finish that shifts colour in the light, as seen on the Hanged Man , where a skeleton and radiating lines appear against a black background. The card back uses white ink on the same black background, with an eye, radiating rings, skeletons, swords and cups arranged around a central sun. The cards measure 8 × 14 cm.

The reflective holographic finish shifts colour in the light.

The front of the Killstar Tarot Cards box showing a veiled skeleton beneath the KILLSTAR name.

Right: the box front shows a veiled skeleton beneath the KILLSTAR name, with stars and a crescent moon around it.

Killstar Tarot Fashion

Gothic fashion models wearing Killstar clothing and accessories featuring Killstar tarot and Rider-Waite tarot artwork.

Above: models wear Killstar clothing printed with imagery from the Killstar Tarot and Rider-Waite tarot.

Major Arcana

Above: from the Fool to Justice, the Rider-Waite-Smith sequence remains, with each figure redrawn as a silver skeleton on black.

The remaining Major Arcana from Killstar Tarot Cards, from The Hanged Man to The World, shown as silver skeleton line drawings on black cards.

Above: the Hanged Man is shown as a skeleton suspended from an inverted cross, while Death, the Devil and the World are also drawn as skeletons.

Minor Arcana

Court Cards

Above: the Swords and Cups courts keep their standard titles but replace the human faces with skulls.

The Wands and Pentagrams court cards from Killstar Tarot Cards, with skeleton figures holding wands and pentagrams.

Above: in the Wands and Pentagrams courts, robes and crowns distinguish the skeletal figures.

Swords

Above: the Swords appear as weapons within scenes of graves, skeletons and confinement.

Cups

Above: the Cups appear within moonlit scenes, beside flowers and skeletons.

Wands

Above: skeletal figures carry the Wands among flowering branches and dark landscapes.

Pentagrams

Above: the Pentagrams are held, worn and arranged around the skeletal figures as part of each scene.

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By Kieran Evans

United Kingdom • Member since July 11, 2026

Tarot collector, enthusiast for all kinds of paper rectangle. Pictures sourced from my collection, for all words Adam Wintle acted as my editor, proof-reader and, in some cases, ghost writer.

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