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The Phantom of the Opera
by
Gaston Leroux
Author of "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" and
"The Perfume of the Lady in Black"
Contents
Chapter
 
 
PROLOGUE
I  
IS IT A GHOST?
II  
THE NEW MARGARITA
III  
THE MYSTERIOUS REASON
IV  
BOX FIVE
V  
THE ENCHANTED VIOLIN
VI  
A VISIT TO BOX FIVE
VII  
FAUST AND WHAT FOLLOWED
VIII  
THE MYSTERIOUS BROUGHAM
IX  
AT THE MASKED BALL
X  
FORGET THE NAME OF THE MAN'S VOICE
XI  
ABOVE THE TRAP-DOORS
XII  
APOLLO'S LYRE
XIII  
A MASTER-STROKE OF THE TRAP-DOOR LOVER
XIV  
THE SINGULAR ATTITUDE OF A SAFETY-PIN
XV  
CHRISTINE! CHRISTINE!
XVI  
MME. GIRY'S REVELATIONS
XVII  
THE SAFETY-PIN AGAIN
XVIII  
THE COMMISSARY, THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN
XIX  
THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN
XX  
IN THE CELLARS OF THE OPERA
XXI  
INTERESTING VICISSITUDES
XXII  
IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER
XXIII  
THE TORTURES BEGIN
XXIV  
BARRELS! BARRELS!
XXV  
THE SCORPION OR THE GRASSHOPPER: WHICH
XXVI  
THE END OF THE GHOST'S LOVE STORY
 
EPILOGUE
 
(plus a "bonus chapter" called "THE PARIS OPERA HOUSE")
The Phantom of the Opera
Prologue
IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS SINGULAR WORK INFORMS THE READER HOW HE ACQUIRED THE CERTAINTY THAT THE OPERA GHOST REALLY EXISTED
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.
When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena ascribed to the "ghost" and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes; and I soon conceived the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the phenomena in question. The events do not date more than thirty years back; and it would not be difficult to find at the present day, in the foyer of the ballet, old men of the highest respectability, men upon whose word one could absolutely rely, who would remember as though they happened yesterday the mysterious and dramatic conditions that attended the kidnapping of Christine Daae, the disappearance of the Vicomte de Chagny and the death of his elder brother, Count Philippe, whose body was found on the bank of the lak ............

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