Excerpt from Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.

I take to patrolling the corridors between the hours of three and four in the morning.

I visit the secret room often in order that I might keep my journal up to date.

Routine is important I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings..

Sometimes I am sure I hear hysterical laughter from a cell I know to be empty.

My movements through the house have become as formalized as ballet and I feel that I have become an essential part of some incomprehensible process.

The house is a living thing, hungry for madness.

It is the maze that dreams.

And I am lost.