Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a woman named Christine who is given a position in the chorus at the Paris Opera House. Not long after she arrives there, she begins hearing a voice, which sings to her and speaks to her. She believes it must be the Angel of Music her dying father promised he’d send and asks him if he is. The Voice agrees and offers to teach her "a little bit of heaven's music." The Voice, however, belongs to Erik, a disfigured genius who was on the construction crew when the Opera was built and who secretly built into the cellars a home for himself. He is the Opera ghost ("Fantôme" in French can be translated as both "ghost" and "phantom") who has been extorting money from Opera management for many years. Unknown to Christine, at least at first, he has fallen in love with her.

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