The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

⏱ 8 minMystery classic

Beneath the Paris Opera, five floors down by an underground lake, lives a hideous masked genius who loves a young soprano with a terrible, hopeless passion. The falling chandelier, the abduction into the depths, and a monster's lonely death for love. Leroux's immortal gothic romance.

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