 The idea behind the album was to have the lead character spend a night where a number of ghosts (dead and alive) would march past him to tell their stories.Characters include Haitian war criminals, the crew of the Mary Celeste, a returning American World War I soldier who finds himself in 2012, and the ghost of an English comedy writer (P. G. Wodehouse) who was wrongly accused of treason.The album was released on 12 March 2012 and accompanied by a tour in March and April of 2012.