The Phantom of the Opera: Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantome de L'Opera) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.
A novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischutz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations.