Fans of literate horror, whatever their opinion of Andrew Lloyd Weber, will be gratified. Much of the books power stems from the authors presentation of his narrative as the factual product of his own diligent archival research and interviews with survivors of the phenomenon. These events are followed by an unexpectedly triumphant performance by Christine Dae, who previously had an undistinguished singing career, which proves to be linked to the phantom. The tale of a Paris opera house inhabited by a spectral figure with seemingly magical abilities remains genuinely creepy today. A turnover in the management of the opera house coincides with sightings of the so-called Opera ghost and the grim discovery of the hanged corpse of Joseph Buquet, the company's chief scene-shifter. Sublimation and the Gothic in Lerouxs Novel and its Progeny. This understated treatment means that even his spoiler-laden prologue heightens rather than lessens suspense. The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera.

Much of the book's power stems from the author's presentation of his narrative as the factual product of his own diligent archival research and interviews with survivors of the phenomenon. The tremendously popular and well-known Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical production of The Phantom of the Opera was based on the French novel Le Fantome de lOpera written by Gaston Leroux in1910 (Leroux, 1910/1990). The tale of a Paris opera house inhabited by a spectral figure with seemingly magical abilities remains genuinely creepy today.

The inaugural release in the Horror Writers Association Haunted Library of Horror Classics series will be a revelation to those familiar only with the musical based on the 1910 novel by LeRoux (1868 1927).

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