The Phantom of the Opera

The ballet girls whisper about a ghost in evening dress, the new managers receive polite letters demanding a private box and a monthly salary, and a young singer, Christine Daae, is being taught by a mysterious voice she believes is the Angel of Music. Gaston Leroux, a former newspaper reporter, tells the story as if he had pieced it together from old papers and witnesses. This is the English translation of 1911. Read it for its gothic atmosphere, its romance and the maze of cellars beneath the opera house.

Original work: Serialized in French in 1909–1910