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The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux

On the coverBallet at the Paris Opéra, Edgar Degas, 1877

The Phantom of the Opera

1910 · France · Novel · ~360 pages

Beneath the Paris Opera, a disfigured musical genius haunts the labyrinth of cellars and lakes, and falls fatally in love with a young soprano he schemes to make a star. The gothic romance that became a modern legend.

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Why read it

A deliciously gothic tale of obsession, music, and a masked ghost, richer and eerier than its stage-musical fame suggests. Pure atmospheric romance and dread.

Themes
SettingParis, 1880s

The gaslit grandeur of the nineteenth-century Paris Opera, with its glittering auditorium above and its rumoured secret world of tunnels and lakes below.

About the author

Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), a French journalist and pioneer of detective fiction, set his most famous story in the real, cavernous Paris opera house.