The Phantom of the Opera: The 1910 Gothic Horror Romance Classic

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Published Mar 24, 2023

242 pages

Average rating: 7.71

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xxsandwichxx
Aug 13, 2025
This is one of my favorite Musicals and I just LOVE classics, great for lovers of dark romances and tragedy's.
DavidTheSearcher
May 16, 2025
1/10 star
I don't know why but I did not like this book. I think maybe it's just not for me. I got about 2/3rds through and DNF.
Kul109
Apr 19, 2025
9/10 stars
Fun, mysterious, classic gothic short novel.
TionneStaples
Jan 04, 2024
10/10 stars
All time favorite classic! Part of me has always wanted Erik and Christine Daaé to get together…
Amanda Brown
Dec 04, 2023
6/10 stars
Part of my goals for myself this year was to read more classics. I started off by listening to Phantom of the Opera. I've never seen the play, the musical, what have you. All I knew was the gist.

And the gist is this: a scary opera ghost (referred to as OG often in the book) is haunting an opera house in Paris. He terrorizes a singer.

What the book really is: a great story told from the perspective of the author as the person investigating the claims of the opera ghost and of the disappearance of Christine Daae. The opera ghost, according to the author, is really Erik. A person, although a deformed person. And a crazy person.

Filling in the blanks from the gist I had was entertaining. I would recommend the audiobook simply because of all the French, it just sounds better than what I could have read in my head.

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