Gaston Leroux 3 hr 30 min read

In the waiting-room of a newspaper, a man in black sits sunk in the deepest dejection, an ironbound oaken chest upon his knees, having waited three hours to deliver its terrible contents.

Gaston Leroux's 1909 novel, by the author of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' is an atmospheric horror and psi tale. Eerie, gripping, richly Gothic. Read it for a moody thriller of the divided self from a master of the macabre, where a mysterious chest and a haunted man open onto a strange and terrible double existence.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).