Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
Leroux in 1907
Still of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Poster of the film adaptation of Balaoo in 1913
Gaston Leroux's "Not' Olympe" was translated into English as "The Mystery of the Four Husbands" and published in the December 1929 issue of Weird Tales.
The Phantom of the Opera (novel)
The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and by an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
One of the five watercolors by André Castaigne illustrating the first American edition of the Phantom of the Opera (1911).