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