The Bride of the Sun

A masked genius lives in the cellars of the Paris Opera and coaches a young soprano from behind the walls. The 1910 novel behind the Lon Chaney film and the musical, darker and stranger than both.

Gaston Leroux

A quiet Paris rope merchant discovers he is the reincarnation of Cartouche, the famous 18th-century bandit, and starts hunting for the treasure he buried two centuries ago. A comic fantastic novel in Edgar Jepson's 1912 translation, with the original illustrations.

Gaston Leroux

A husband becomes convinced that a famous painter is stealing his young wife's heart in her dreams, and sets out to find out how before he loses her. Leroux's Le Coeur cambriole, published in English in 1926, also known as The Burgled Heart.

Gaston Leroux