In the mouth of madness ... Hawkgirl has been having bad dreams. One year after fighting a fierce war in space, Kendra Saunders is living in Hawkman's home city - St. Roch, Louisiana - trying to make a life for herself while carrying on her missing partner's work. But the strange, haunting dreams seem to center on the museum, and its unexplored basement. Are they tied into the mysterious gangland killings that have the police baffled ... killings that may involve voudon magic? With every aspect of her personal, professional and superhero life in disarray, Hawkgirl must draw on every reserve of her strength to defeat the supernatural menace that is stalking her ... or risk ending up just another morsel for the Maw ...