Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is his tourde force,as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, PHANTOM has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century.This new translation--the first completely modern and Americanized translation unfurls the full impact of this classic thriller for modern readers...
A haunting tale of suspense and intrigue set in nineteenth-century Paris.
As Monsieurs Richard and Moncharmin prepare to take over as acting managers of the Opera House, they discover their predecessors have bequeathed them the ‘Opera Ghost’. A separate memorandum-book has been set aside for his various whims, including extravagant financial needs. Heedless of the numerous warnings to comply with these strange demands the managers shrug it all off as a practical joke taken too far. Then a sequence of eerie coincidences and tragic events follow,culminating in the sudden disappearance of the beautiful prima donna Christine Daae in mid-performance.
Tortured by the pangs of unrequited love, the mysterious figure living beneath the Opera House has been awaiting his chance to strike - and once he does, he is deadly ...
PROLOGUE
Is It the Ghost
The New Margarita
The Mysterious Reason
Box Five
The Enchanted Violin
A Visit to Box Five
Faust and What Followed
The Mysterious Brougham
At the Masked Ball
Forget the Name of the
Man’s Voice
Above the Trap-Doors
Apollo’s Lyre
A Master-Stroke of the
Trap-Door Lover
The Singular Attitude of a
Safety-Pin
Christine! Christine!
Mine. Giry’s Revelations
The Safety-Pin Again
The Commissary, the Viscount
and the Persian
The Viscount and the Persian
In the Cellars of the Opera
Interesting Viscissitudes
In the Torture Chamber
The Torture Begin
Barrels! Barrels!
The Scorpion or the
Grasshopper: Which?
The End of the Ghost’s
Love Story
EPILOGUE