The New Terror

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

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