![]() He wasĬonvicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the same dark The court of law generally are treated at Williams Medical Center beforeīeing deemed dangerous enough to be sent to Arkham Asylum.Īrkham Asylum has a long and brutal history, beginning when its ownĪrchitect went mad, hacking his workers to death with an axe. Gotham criminals deemed "criminally insane" or "mentally unfit" by Required for certain patients or inmates being a regularity rather thanĮxception, is potentially seen by authorities to be an ideal location Refrigerated environment to stay alive Arkham, with special conditions Is not always depicted as insane, but he requires a strongly Them from staying in a regular prison are housed there. ![]() In addition, prisoners with unusual medical conditions that prevent Jonathan Crane and Hugo Strange, have committed serious crimes. Harleen Quinzel, Lyle Bolton and, in some incarnations, Drs. Jeremiah Arkham, as well as staff members Dr. Furthermore, several staff members, including directors Dr. The high profile cases (most notably the Joker who is frequently shownĮscaping at will) and those who are 'cured' and released tend to Lovecraft, and in particular his fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts,the asylum was created by Dennis O'Neil and first appeared in Batman #258 (October 1974) much of its back-story was created by Len Wein during the 1980s.Īrkham Asylum does not have a good record, at least with regard to Although it has had numerous administrators, recent comic books have featured Jeremiah Arkham. In the 1880s, its newspaper is called the Arkham Gazette.Īrkham Asylum is located on the outskirts of Gotham City and is where those of Batman's foes considered to be legally insane are incarcerated (other foes are incarcerated at Blackgate Penitentiary). State Hospital also appears in Lovecraft's stories Pickman's Model and The Shadow over Innsmouth.).Īrkham's main newspaper is the Arkham Advertiser, which has a circulation that reaches as far as Dunwich. Other notable institutions in Arkham are the Arkham Historical Society and the Arkham Sanitarium.Īrkham Sanitarium appears in the short story The Thing on the DoorstepĪnd may have been inspired by the Danvers State Insane Asylum, akaĭanvers State Hospital, located in Danvers, Massachusetts. Walter Gilman, of The Dreams in the Witch House (1933), attends classes at the university. The institution finances the expeditions in both At the Mountains of Madness (1936) and The Shadow Out of Time (1936). The ancient, mouldering, and subtly fearsome town.witch-cursed, legend-haunted Arkham, whose huddled, sagging gambrel roofs and crumbling Georgian balustrades brood out over the centuries beside the darkly muttering Miskatonic.Īrkham is the home of Miskatonic University, which figures prominently in many of Lovecraft's works. In the 1933 story The Thing on the Doorstep, Lovecraft described
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