The Dream Keeper

Two more Tarot Cards are done!

Funny. All I could think when drawing the Eight of Blades (my tarot's equivalent to the "Eight of Wands") was: LOOK OUT, MOTHMAN! SHE'S GOT A NET!

Who really, really, REALLY need to read this . You wanna do it for them?

From Trent Staley's Tarot Deck! Which version do you like better? Let me know in the comments!                                             

“LATEBROS ASSECLASOMNUS” Sometimes “Nightsnare”, “Mind-Parasite”, or “Dream-Drainer”. Etymology: “Lurking Parasite God”, from the Latin “Latebros” (Lurking), Assecla” (Parasite), and “Somnus” (Roman Sleep God).        S leep is a time of vulnerability – possibly the most vulnerable one can be by necessity. So, of course, the worst conceivable predator relating to this time of helplessness would not only be one that hunts exclusively while its prey is sleeping – but also one that hunts the very act of sleep itself.        S omnivores by necessity are difficult to observe, but a creature of vaguely Dragonfly-like outline is seen drifting in and out of the darkness as its victims awake and drift off to sleep. Its outline is thin as a stick, its four wings great and transluscent and glowing softly; lulling its prey into unconsciousness. Its head is bulbous, rounded. Its mouth looks as a human’s without a lower ja...

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As a huge Lovecraft fan, I've never been so highly honored! LET'S ALL GO TO RLYEH, LET'S ALL GO TO RLYEH; LET'S ALL GO TO RLYEH AND BUY OURSELVES A SOUL (yum!)

At one point in my current novel, Trent - the protagonist - illustrates a mural in chalk on the side of his school. Of course, the teachers make him hose it down, but he recreates it for a two-page spread in the book. Near the top center are the Dreadful Wind Demons. Watch out, they're dreadful.

If anyone out there likes Tarot Cards - and I feel like those are the kinds of people who'd like my blog, for some reason - I'm working on a deck that'll go with my current book. The Major Arcana, anyways. For those of you who don't know that means, like, the Devil and the High Priestess and all the cool ones that show up in horror movies and books and such. This is my "High Priestess" equivalent, "The K'thonic Queen". Went with that name because the High Priestess is usually related to Persephone, a Cthonic Goddess from Ancient Greece. And went with that spelling because it's kinda like "K'tulu", my preferred spelling of "Cthulhu". I sometimes suspect that "Cthulhu" comes from "Chthonic" seeing as Lovecraft was very well-schooled in mythology and folklore. More on the way! And I may very well make the deck itself available for purchase, presuming enough people like it.