Dark Parks

10/20/2025

A Dark Parks favorite - just in... Clive Barker's Thief of Always. First edition 1992. Signed by Barker on the title page. Scarce hardcover. Fully illustrated with full-page b&w sketches by Barker throughout. One of my favorite books of all time. This book is one of the first to kick off the youth/adult genre of the early 90s infusing fantasy & light horror for kids and adults, alike. Priced to go at $100.00 + ship.

09/29/2025

To our friends from the Salt Lake City Oddities show (and everybody else) - many of you asked about buying more prints (Dore etc) as well as our original Rider-Waite tarot cards - we have uploaded the non cataloged items. You can view/purchase them through our website. THANK YOU.

09/18/2025

Utah we’re coming for you!! September 20-21.

07/22/2025

Original Rider-Waite tarot deck cards. Single cards available. Very rare early print [Pam C - Pam B] of the most famous tarot deck ever printed. By famous occultist A.E. Waite. Printed by William Rider & Son. Artwork by Pamela Colman Smith.
Circa 1920-1940 we believe these cards to from the Pam C printing (1920-1930). The third printing is referred to as Pam B (1931-1940). The reference of A-D are not in order time wise. The very first limited printing was 1910-1920 and nearly impossible to find.
At time of description we locate no other original single cards from the early printings and only one full deck of Pam C for sale at five thousand dollars.
Our individual cards range in price from $25-100 depending on suit and importance.
A once in a lifetime chance to own this piece of occult/tarot/card historic collectible. Would be fantastic in a frame or perhaps someone out there is missing a particular card.
Feel free to DM for a full lengthy description of each card and reference. The only reason we are selling these individually is because I have waited 20 years to find the less than 8 cards of a full deck (including The Sun which is the only card that can really differentiate the decks). Our references point to this deck most likely being the 1920-1930 Pam C - but it might possibly be Pam B. Ultimately all three early printings are extremely rare. The deck was not printed for another forty years later and soon after became the most famous deck in tarot history.

07/16/2025

Huge thanks to all of you that joined us in San Jose CA for the Oddities and Curiosities Expo. We’re back home and our website is back up with active links for all of you that asked. Our next Oddities show will be in Salt Lake City in September!

07/11/2025

Oddities & Curiosities Expo. San Jose CA. This weekend!! Thousands of unique and one of a kind items. BE THERE!

07/03/2025

July 12-13, 2025. San Jose CA. Oddities & Curiosities Expo. Dark Parks brings you the best in horror literature, occult literature, true crime, rare antique print and artwork (15th century to 19th century). Vintage posters. Autographs. Toys and chachkies. Masks. Rare antiquarian books. Come see us for all your one of a kind and rare treasures. You won’t be disappointed!

06/18/2025

06/18/2025

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi. [ARC, to be released later this year 2025]. Simply put, this work is beautiful. Philip Fracassi has no boundaries! There are no genres, no limits, no characters this guy can not bring to life, and put dead center in your life, as you read his words. Rose Dubois is fierce yet compassionate and caring woman in her late seventies. She is a final girl in what seems to be (to her, at least) a serial killer spree in her beloved retirement home. Her dearest friends are dying off quicker than expected. Is it because they are old? Are they accidents? Are they murders? Rose and her best friend Miller (a love interest, perhaps) are true crime junkies, as well as highly educated retired teachers. Who more perfect than to investigate? The police just chalk it up to elderly folks dying the way elderly folks die. This tale weaves Fracassi”s mastery for horror (this time as a slasher), his great sense of humor, and a plethora of love and devotion (to friends and family, and the will to live life to its fullest). I couldn’t put the book down. I read the entire novel in three sessions in twenty four hours. Pure gold. Imagine Stephen Kings cast of kids in The Body (aka Stand by Me) but with elderly people. The emotion and love of the Oscar winning film Cocoon… the wit and appeal of the Twilight Zones “Kick the Can”… and yet the horror and slasher who-done-it vibes of Wes Craven’s Scream. Beautiful, plain and simple. Please read this. Please make this into a film. As a fu**ed up society in this often ugly modern time, it’s a book like this that can make things better (at least for a little while). Rose Dubois - thank you! Philip Fracassi - thank you!