The Phantom of the Opera
By Gaston Leroux
Cover: “A head of fire came toward them”, illustration for The Phantom of the Opera (1911) by André Castaigne (1861–1929) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic horror novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and by an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in an 1841 production of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
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Table of contents
- 1: Is it the Ghost?
- 2: The New Margarita
- 3: The Mysterious Reason
- 4: Box Five
- 5: The Enchanted Violin
- 6: A Visit to Box Five
- 7: Faust and What Followed
- 8: The Mysterious Brougham
- 9: At the Masked Ball
- 10: Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
- 11: Above the Trap-Doors
- 12: Apollo's Lyre
- 13: A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
- 14: The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
- 15: Christine! Christine!
- 16: Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal
- 17: The Safety-Pin Again
- 18: The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
- 19: The Viscount and the Persian
- 20: In the Cellars of the Opera
- 21: Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in
- 22: In the Torture Chamber
- 23: The Tortures Begin
- 24: "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"
- 25: The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
- 26: The End of the Ghost's Love Story