Overview
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. When I began to ransack the archives of the National Academy of Music I was at once struck by the surprising coincidences between the phenomena ascribed to the "ghost" and the most extraordinary and fantastic tragedy that ever excited the Paris upper classes; and I soon conceived the idea that this tragedy might reasonably be explained by the phenomena in question.
- | Author: Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: May 08, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 234 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1545066981
- | ISBN-13: 9781545066980
