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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

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Strange things are happening at the Paris Opera: stagehands see a man in evening dress with a skull for a face, a box is reserved for a ghost who demands his…

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Author
Gaston Leroux
Category
Horror
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Strange things are happening at the Paris Opera: stagehands see a man in evening dress with a skull for a face, a box is reserved for a ghost who demands his salary, and a great chandelier crashes into the audience. Meanwhile the young singer Christine Daaé is being taught by a mysterious voice she believes to be an angel of music, until her childhood friend Raoul follows her into the cellars and the lake beneath the building.

Context and significance

Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) was a court reporter and theatre critic before he turned to fiction, and he made his name with the locked-room mystery The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Published in 1910, The Phantom of the Opera was not a great success at first, but the 1925 silent film and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical made its masked figure one of the most famous in the world.

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