The Phantom of the Opera

The first novel by Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was published in a newspaper, as he was a well-known journalist, a reporter who had been to Spain, Morocco, and even covered the Russian Revolution of 1905. Leroux became a recognized master of... detective fiction, created the detective Joseph Rouletabille, who rivaled Sherlock Holmes, and even founded a film company. The novels of the French writer (especially "The Mystery of the Yellow Room") delighted surrealists, and Sergei Eisenstein and Jorge Luis Borges were fans of his work. Mysterious events occur in the Paris Opera House: sets collapse, people die. There are rumors that all of this is the work of a mysterious Phantom...