Working with Ba psychic Barabra Gordon, Batman speaks to spirits and learns the truth about the dark bargain his father and three other men made to ensure Gotham rose to glory.

Batman kills Ivy and takes Queen's divine arrows to use against Ra's. Ivy pricks Mayor Harvey Dent and infects him with a strange ailment that turned half his body into a portal to the mindscape and murdered Oliver Queen, who was preparing to join Batman in battle against Iog-Sotha.

RELATED: Batman HATES Lex Luthor For… Saving Gotham City?! Dick and Jason are killed by Grendon and Talia's lizard-man servant, while Bruce - disguised as Batman - tries to fight Talia but fails to stop her plans. Ra's is reborn, a plague of reptiles spread around Gotham, and Ra's uses Grendon's life to create a twisted version of Poison Ivy. Bruce discovers that a mysterious woman - Talia - intends to steal the mysterious Testament of Ghul and use it to resurrect Ra's al Ghul, a true priest to Iog-Sotha. Jason Blood approaches Bruce and warns him that he'll have to sacrifice much to save Gotham from what's coming. Thanks to his incredibly strong moral center, Bruce is naturally able to temper Etrigan's rage somewhat and make him only target evil-doers.

Unable to lock the demon back into the underworld, the demon was instead bonded to Wayne. It turns out that a thousand years earlier, Bruce Wayne convinced Merlin to unleash Etrigan to save Gotham during a massive battle. The next morning, Bruce confronts Alfred, who reveals that Bruce is actually the human host for the demonic Etrigan. To prevent a similar incident from happening again, Etrigan hunts down and kills Ivy. When Etrigan next appears, he's weakened by the medicine given to him by Ivy, and Catwoman is almost able to defeat him in battle. Meanwhile, a brutal Catwoman is hired to hunt down Etrigan and kill him. And every morning, Bruce has terrible and grisly nightmares that he can't shake. Bruce's girlfriend, Glenda, tries to help soothe Bruce's nightmares by taking him to visit a local herbal healer named Ivy. At night, Etrigan the Demon roams the nights of Gotham, brutally slaughtering criminals.

This was one of the stories that inspired Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale to later work together on their opus, Batman: The Long Halloween.In the world introduced in Batman/Demon: A Tragedy by Alan Grant and Jim Murray, Bruce Wayne who ended up bonded with Etrigan the Demon instead of Jason Blood.

This issue is reprinted in Batman: Haunted Knight and Absolute Batman: Haunted Knight.

As the alternate title 'Fears' suggests, fear plays a large role in the story, with Batman nearly dying of fear while trapped in a large, poisonous, thorn maze. During the story 'Choices', Batman is hunting down and trying to capture Scarecrow, with Scarecrow finally being caught at the end.

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