Arkham Asylum structures its narrative according to both the layout of the house and to sacred architecture, and it also spatializes sanity and insanity. Underpinning the narrative is a complex examination of the nature of space and the spatial in the graphic novel, and Arkham Asylum uses this examination to self-reflexively interrogate the nature of comic form. The house itself has a story to tell, and the history of the Asylum is interwoven with the tale of Batman's dark night of the soul. In Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (1989), Batman travels through Gotham City's most famous residence, where his encounters with its inmates force him to reexamine his own psyche.
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