The Man with the Black Feather

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 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

In Lima, a young woman takes a golden sun bracelet that marks her as a bride of the Inca sun god, and the last followers of the old cult come to claim her for their sacrifice. Adventure and the fantastic in the Andes, from 1915.

Gaston Leroux