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Other colors are created by using other gases, but the term “neon lighting” is generally applied to all such lights. Large amounts of neon gas were produced as a by-product of the process he developed to extract other gases from the air, and Claude discovered that passing an electric current through the neon in a closed tube created a bright red light. Claude was a French engineer and inventor who invented neon lighting. Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade is a parody of the story set in his Discworld fantasy universe. Sarah Fine’s Of Metal and Wishes moves the story to an Asian setting with a hint of science fiction Suzy McKee Charnas’s short story “ Beauty and the Opera, or, the Phantom Beast” crosses Leroux with classic fairy tales. Nicholas Meyer puts Sherlock Holmes on the case in The Canary Trainer, and Colette Gale adds an erotic edge to the story in her retelling Unmasqued. Other authors have found their own variations on the story. The chandelier that crashes dramatically to the stage in the novel is also based in reality a chandelier crashed into the auditorium (not the stage) in 1896, killing one of the opera house’s employees.įorsyth’s novel is not the only sequel to relocate the Phantom to a new city Vicki Hopkins takes him to the capital city of Malta in The Phantom of Valletta. The Palais Garnier really does have an underground lake, which is still used today to train Parisian firefighters to swim in the dark.

Some of the story elements that might seem like fictional embellishments are actually true. It’s inspired in part by legends and historical events surrounding the real Palais Garnier. Phantom is set at the Palais Garnier opera house, and tells the story of a mysterious masked man who haunts the building and his growing obsession with Christine, a young soprano. He was reasonably successful by 1909, having already published six novels when Phantom made its debut. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, Leroux began writing mysteries. By 1907, he was on solid enough financial footing that he left journalism to become a full-time novelist. He worked for several years as a crime reporter and theater critic. Leroux had studied to be a lawyer, but after gambling away his inheritance, he needed a more steady and reliable income, so he turned to reporting. Installments continued to appear through January 1910, and the novel was first published in book form in March 1910. On September 23, 1909, the first installment of Gaston Leroux’s novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera) was published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.