Batman: Arkham Asylum The Deluxe Edition | HardcoverWhere all compulsions meet. In 1920, following the death of his disturbed mother, brilliant psychologist Amadeus Arkham began the conversion of his ancestral home into a hospital for the treatment of the mentally ill. More than half a century later, the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a place of dismal corridors and oppressive shadowsa dark riddle in stone and timber, best left unsolved. Within its claustrophobic walls the demented and