Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, Annotated and Illustrated

In the winter of 1881, up-and-coming Swedish soprano, Christine Daaé, disappears from the stage of the Opéra Garnier during the finale of "Faust" and is never heard from again. The next morning the boots and top hat of her childhood friend, the Vicomte de Chagny, are found near a secret trap door behind stage. The young aristocrat is never seen again, and his brother's body is found on the shores of an underground lake -- drowned. At the time the opera was hounded by rumors of a ghost who l...