Oh - found!
I've been out this evening.
Well, we've had this one planned for four years now (really) but I just felt we weren't ready to do a dark deck until now. Then the Victorian Romantic turned out to have its Dark Sister (we couldn't call it that - we sell a lot outside English speaking countries now so we felt the word "Gothic" was needed as it's well understood. Still, I think I may always think of it as the Dark Sister myself). The Dark Sister just began howling at the windows all winter - but she had to wait for the Cats to be finished (she likes cats, but she wasn't pleased to wait).
It's taken a lot of thinking about how to do it so that it's dark but not shlocky (is that a word?) I wanted something that felt like a very old Victorian Gothic story - things in the shadows, beautiful women of dubious history (as I said on my blog, I feel that the Queen of Swords is a great deal older than she looks), strange hauntings... all that. Alex wanted something beautiful - he believes that dark ugly images are a bad thing for the spirit - when the darkness has beauty in it, it transforms into something more useful and thought-provoking.
Anyway, here is another taster, the High Priestess. Please bear in mind that knowing us, these will get tweaked a bit between now and the autumn. It's a long, long way to go yet (by the way, the barn owl is my favourite barn owl in the world - she is dear who was rescued here with a bad wing, she loves people and I've held her a few times - but I digress a lot!)
Oh - and yes, it's borderless. I never thought we'd do a borderless deck, but these images seemed to demand it (we tried various dark borders and they just closed everything in too much).
Picks Hearthcricket off the floor, dusts her down and offers her the smelling salts...
