PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Gardner, a rising purveyor of high literary strangeness, offers a fresh slice of phantasmagoria densely packed with striking images." "Theatre of Curious Acts will alarm, disturb, delight, and always entertain as the reader follows protagonist Daniel Cole through unknown exits and across ghost-ridden stages, trying to save humanity from itself."-Cat Rambo. Returned home from the Great War, his parents and brother in their graves, Daniel walks a ghost world. When players in a theatre show lure Daniel and his friends, fellow soldiers, into a surreal otherworld they find themselves trapped on an apocalyptic path. A pirate ship waits to ferry some of them to the end of the world, helmed by Death. Already broken by war, these men are now the world's only hope in the greatest battle of all.