The Tarot Caf

Second in the extraordinary manga series “that is part fantasy, part horror and entirely intriguing . . . Park’s artwork is stellar (Publishers Weekly). Meet Aaron, an accidental werewolf with a painful past of abuse and abandonment, seeking an answer to his problem. He decides to take a position as an assistant with Pamela at the Tarot Café while he searches for a solution. A glimpse into Pamela’s life before the Tarot Café is laden with prejudice and persecution. Seven hundred years ago, Pamela’s mother made the ultimate sacrifice for her daughter . . . but even now, is the fear that doomed her mother really gone? Praise for The Tarot Café series “The black-and-white manga-style illustrations are clear and expressive and fully complement the text, and the tarot cards are interestingly drawn. As each one is turned over, its meaning is explained. The stories are mostly about adults, but they will appeal to older teens as they move quickly and are engrossing.” —School Library Journal “The stories are suitably creepy in a gothic, Twilight Zone-ish way . . . The artwork really makes this manga stand above the crowd.” —Booklist

"Combines volume 1-3 of the Tarot Cafâe original publication."

Nina searches for answers in a mystical café not sure if the entire thing was her imagination.

Pamela is a tarot card reader who helps supernatural beings living in the human world. Although she is good-natured, there is a deep, dark secret that she must deal with before she can move on to the next life.

Discusses the origins, history, and symbolism of playing cards and describes traditional methods for forecasting the future with an ordinary deck of cards

It is 1990, and Wysteria, Florida, America's oldest and least credible spiritualist community, is celebrating its 100th birthday. Coordinating an anniversary festival is local resident and US Arts & Crafts magazine publisher Sheila Renault. Assisting Sheila is her cousin Van, US A&C's incompetent receptionist and Wysteria's reigning Virgin Queen; Erich Weimar, ex-con, divorced father and town hunk; his nephew Seth, a troubled 30-year-old in the body of an even more troubled adolescent; Justin Cook, whose parents bought the Wysteria Hotel so he could have some other place to lie around; Marilyn Smart, the community's most talented and most modest psychic; and Lenore LaShomb, its least talented and least modest. Together Sheila and her committee organize an event that makes Wysteria a household name--for very different reasons than they expect--and makes the upper-class residents of neighboring Talbot consider nuking it from orbit.