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The Phantom of The Opera is a gothic novel - combining romance, horror, mystery and tragedy.

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

In Leroux's original 1910 novel, the setting is 19th century Paris at the Opera Garnier, a luxurious and monumental building which has been built over a huge underground lake. The employees claim that the opera house is haunted by a mysterious ghost who causes a variety of accidents. The "Opera Ghost" ("le fantôme de l'Opéra") blackmails the two opera managers to pay him a monthly retainer of 20,000 francs and reserve for him a private concert booth.

Meanwhile, the young diva Christine Daaé (believed to be inspired and guided by an Angel of Music supposedly sent by her father) achieves sudden prominence on the opera stage when she replaces the current prima donna Carlotta, who has twice necessitated replacement due to a mysterious illness. Christine wins the hearts of the audience, including that of her childhood sweetheart, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny.

The Phantom then becomes envious of her relationship with Raoul and invites her to visit him down in his world beneath the edifice. Christine accepts, and down in the catacombs learns that her angel is in actuality a deformed musical genius who wears a mask to hide his abhorrent face. She screams in horror once she beholds his true visage, and the Phantom locks her in his home, agreeing to free her only after she promises to return to him of her own free will.

Christine is torn between her love of young and charming vicomte Raoul and her fascination with the Phantom's darkly beautiful music. When she realizes that her angel is also the Opera Ghost responsible for the accidents and murders, she and Raoul decide to marry in secret and run away from Paris -- and the Phantom's reach.

The Phantom discovers their plan and during Christine's performance as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, he abducts her from the stage. Down in the Phantom's home, the last confrontation between the Phantom, Christine and Raoul takes place.

Who Is the Phantom?
The Phantom was born as Erik in a small town not far from Rouen, the son of a master-mason. He ran away at an early age from his father's house, where his ugliness was a subject of horror and terror to his parents. For a time, he frequented the fairs, where a freak show showman exhibited him as the "living corpse." He traveled around Europe and Asia with the Gypsies. There he acquired his acrobatic and musical skills and sharpened his twisted genius.

Eventually, he ended up as court assassin and personal-engineer to the Persian Shah and built for him sophisticated traps and torture devices (such as the Punjab Lasso). After some time, the Shah feared that Erik knew too much and decided to dispose of him. Erik managed to escape, eventually making his way back to France.

Erik used his architectural genius skills and won a contract as one of the architects of Paris' Palais Garnier Opera House. Without anyone noticing, he pumped and drained the underground water into an underground lake and built a maze of tunnel and corridors. Past the underground lake he built a lair for himself, where he could live protected from the public.

Besides being a brilliant inventor and engineer, Erik was also a musical genius, and he started to visit the Opera House in order to listen to operas and interfere with the manager's bad taste. Because he could not show his face in public, he took the guise of a ghost, using violence in order to blackmail the Opera managers and bind them to his will. He exploited the employees' superstitions and his knowledge about the building's secret passages, allowing him access to every part of the building without being noticed. He terrorized those who refused his demands and even killed people as warnings. However, he treated nicely those who were loyal to him and obeyed his command (such as Madam Giry).

The story of the novel begins when a young chorus girl named Christine Daaé joins the Opera's chorus and Erik, the Phantom, falls in love.

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