Arkham Asylum

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The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a fictional psychiatric hospital and prison: part of the DC comics and first appearing in Batman #258, 1974, referred to as the Arkham Asylum situated in the area of Gotham City: originally the family home of Elizabeth Arkham and her son, the founder. (Elizabeth died by suicide but actually her son Amadeus murdered her.) Dr. Amadeus Arkham, a man who eventually also becomes mentally ill, it is a tall spiralling castle-like structure with narrow halls: consisting of rooms, padded cells, treatment rooms, and labs, and is located on an island along a river inside Gotham City; surrounded by slums called The Narrows eventually uninhabitable. (But, in all the different comics, books, films it explained differently.) It has a long and brutal history beginning with the architect, who hacked his workers to death with an axe: patients are tortured, drugged, and used for sadistic experiments, it has a multi-layered and intricate history with different points of view; patients range from insane to those with odd treatments required. The founders wife and daughter were raped, mutilated and murdered there, by Mad Dog Hawkins - but Dr. Arkham found him: and electrocuted him calling it an accident, there were lots of accidents, the asylum appears in many DC comics, Graphic Novels, films and games; there are even stories of patients reverting to cannibalism. The majority of Batman's adversaries ended up at Arkham, Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Emerald Empress: Mad Dog Hawkins, Scarecrow, Two Face, Doctor Destiny, Poison Ivy, Clayface, Nocturna, Junkyard Dog, Mad Hatter, Great White Shark; Dr. Amadeus Arkham, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham, and many others. (Batman had a hidden cave in the sub basement called NW Batcave.) The asylum throughout the different versions is damaged, demolished, ad destroyed many times only to be rebuilt, reborn: is featured in numerous stories with different names and histories, but always a place for the criminally insane and mentally unwell; always a place of unimaginable evil, horror and death. _____________________ December 21, 2022 Poetry/Narrative/Arkham Asylum Copyright Protected, ID 12-1510-311-21 All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France Written for the Premiere contest, Arkham Asylum sponsor, Robert James Liguori, Judged 01/14/2023 First Place