The Fantod Pack

In the latter part of his career, Gorey produced fewer books, but experimented with other ways of presenting his work, such as this pack of divination cards.

The 20 cards come with a booklet by 'Madame Groeda Weyrd' explaining how to use them, and which is clearly a spoof of Crowley's instructions for the tarot in his Book of Thoth.

Use Gorey's cards at your peril - all the predictions are awful! Darkly humorous, as always.

The booklet describing how to "read" the Fantod cards is a slight little thing. The cards are lovely, though, strange and cryptic. We've had fun telling one another's fortune which has required looking up words like "cataahr". We've even told the cat's fortune.

Desperate for novelty, and it shows. Enough practice and we'll have a fun sideline.

So very personal