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Gaston Leroux

Lifespan: 1868 – 1927
Nationality: French
Active: 1909
Works held: 1

Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) created one of popular culture’s enduring figures in The Phantom of the Opera (1910), the disfigured genius haunting the Paris Opéra. A master of the mystery and the macabre, his The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic locked-room puzzle, he brought gothic sensation into the modern thriller.

The works

1909

The Double Life

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Psychic Powers Horror

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Algernon Blackwood Algis Budrys Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur J. Burks Bryce Walton Chester S. Geier Don Berry

Contemporaries writing in the same era

L. Frank Baum H. G. Wells E. Nesbit Luis Senarens Anonymous Frances Hodgson Burnett Jack London Algernon Blackwood John Kendrick Bangs Rudyard Kipling

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