GASTON LEROUX

Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new translation, with informative introduction and notes. The original novel behind Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera tells of the masked Phantom whose obsessive love for Christine Daae sets in chain a series of terrifying events....

A favourite of Gothic horror stories, a tale of unrequited love, passion and tragedy in this new Fantastica edition of Leroux&'s &'The Phantom of the Opera&' novel. The story takes us far beneath the majesty and splendour of the Paris Opera House. This is where hides the Phantom in his shadowy existence. Shamed by his physical appearance and feared...

Ermolai bowed and returned to the garden. The "e;barinia"e; left the veranda, where she had come for this conversation with the old servant of General Trebassof, her husband, and returned to the dining-room in the datcha des Iles, where the gay Councilor Ivan Petrovitch was regaling his amused associates with his latest exploit at...

Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) – francuski pisarz i reporter, klasyk „fantastyki grozy”. Z zawodu prawnik. Autor przede wszystkim powieści detektywistyczne. Jego pozycja w literaturze francuskiej XIX wieku porównywana bywa do Edgara Allana Poego i Arthura Conana Doyle'a. Najsłynniejszą powieścią Lerouxa jest „Upiór w Operze”. Tutaj prezentujemy...