"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux - Bookworm History

Episode 18: “The Phantom of the Opera” by Gaston Leroux

Greetings, folks! On this episode of Bookworm History we talk about the ghostly stories and ghastly events that inspired Gaston Leroux to pen his most famous work “The Phantom of the Opera”!

Be sure to check out the bits of this story that didn't make it into the final cut:    • "Phantom" Outtakes - Trivia and Tidbits  

For more on Leroux and the history behind the “Phantom” check out “Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust” by Cormac Newark as well as the paper “No Ordinary Skeleton: Unmasking the Secret Source of Gaston Leroux's 'Le Phantom de l'Opera'” by Raj Shah which can be found here: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/conten...

For more on the Opera Garnier look into “The Architecture of Paris: An Architectural Guide” by Andrew Ayers.

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