"It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can..." On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

"The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming." A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

"Catch the excitement. Catch the laughter. Catch the Hawk." A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.