Jon Black Bücher

Much is popularized of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of facts, but many are presented via a creative lens distorting how organized crime began. References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years. This new book however examines the early development of the Sicilian-American criminal network through the rise and fall of the first US Mafia boss of bosses Giuseppe Morello and his powerful brother-in-law Ignazio Lupo.This meticulously illustrated volume of Secret Societies shines a light on this fascinating time of American history and organized crime. It does so through research from primary sources, richly illuminating the period of the 1890s-1920s using photos, documents, contemporary articles and illustrations. Through a combination of period photographs, government records, news clippings, graphic design and fully annotated text, Secret Societies permits the reader to witness the important moments and trends in the development of Sicilian-American organized crime in the United States. A visual, photographic & design feast.

Award-Winning curator Nicole Petit presents the second volume of the dark fantasy collision between the Cthulhu Mythos and Arthurian Legend.When King Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, he established more than a nation. He established an ideal. Where righteousness and learning could thrive. Where valiant knights battled evil. Camelot, the incorruptible dream.From beyond the stars and before time, something stirs. Spoken of in the Necronomicon, eldritch gods make their influence known. Awakened by loathsome constellations, they arise from sea-locked tombs and turn men's minds from outer spheres. The Mythos, the corrupting nightmare.Tonight, the stars are right. As Uther Pendragon's Britain is scorched by the unrelenting sun, the waking world's salvation must be found in the Dreamlands. A Roman Yog Sothoth cult holds secret sway, and if it can be solved, Merlin's riddle is the key to their defeat. Relics from Carcosa are brought to Camelot, bleeding the line between the world that is and the world that could be. How knights such as Pellinore, Galahad, and Calogrenant respond will save or damn all things.Shadows Over Avalon: Volume Two features a novella by Jon Black and stories by Lukasz Furmaniak, Georgia Cook, C.L. Werner, Kara Dennison, and Sophie Iles.

A globe-trotting quest for the historical King Arthur's sword. From the Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll Award-Winning Author Jon Black... When Dr. Vivian Cuinnsey found Merlin's tomb, she thought the adventure was over. But now her Merlin exhibition is attacked, drawing her back into danger. There's just two problems. First, Jake Booker, treasure hunter and her former partner, is held captive by zealous students convinced he is stealing antiquities. Second, someone else wants Arthur's sword. In the present, Vivian and Jake are up against mercenaries, musty academics, and a mysterious swordsman in a two-fisted, and two-brained, adventure. In the past, Merlin and the young King Arthur seek out the blade that will unite Britain. A dragonblade. A magical blade that will draw them deep into hostile Pict territory, where nothing is safe and allies are hard to come by. From crusader tombs to elite fighting rings to the roaring roads of the Autobahn, chase Vivian and Jake in their pursuit of King Arthur's blade.