Kay expanded them, starting with the day Erik was born (and even before that, as she presented his mother’s life before giving birth to her only child) and ending with the day the Phantom takes his last breath. Leroux focused on the present time of the story and explained Erik’s life prior to the events taking place in his book very briefly. Kay used all the elements from Leroux’s drama that described the Phantom’s, that is Erik’s, life. I read Kay’s Phantom because (so far) Leroux’s original story is my favourite novel and I just love a good Gothic drama. This novel is not a sequel to, but a re-telling of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910. Phantom: A haunting story of power and darkness, of magic and murder, of sensuality and betrayal, and ultimately, the unforgettable story of a man and a woman and the eternal quality of love. Obsessed, he will bring her into his eerie subterranean world, driven to posses her heart and soul. Cloaked in secrets, his power complete, he will see the exquisite Christine and for the first time know what it means to love. and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera House and the labyrinthine world below. a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court.
Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemason's apprentice in Rome.
Taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again – as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. GENRE: re-telling/historical gothic romanceĪ child is born.
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