Almost nine months have passed since the bloodbath of Gotham City at the hands of Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke. It is now October 31st, which marks the sixteenth anniversary of the deaths of both Thomas and Martha Wayne. And it is on this day that the villian by the name of the Scarecrow, formerly Doctor Jonathan Crane, decides to wreak havoc upon Gotham city with his special gas that'll make everyone's worst fears come to life.
While battling Crane for the fate of Gotham once more, Batman sees that yet another ghost of his past has come back to haunt him in the form of Thomas Elliott, a very old and close friend of his that once believed dead in the event he was beaten to a bloody pulp in The Gotham City Annual Orphanage, but has now come back as the serial killer known only as Hush. Now Batman must confront both Elliott and Crane before he too falls victim to the Scarecrow's sociopathic vision for Gotham City..
