The iconic adventure novel by Gaston Leroux opens up to the reader the brilliant world of the Parisian Grand Opera with luxurious halls, dressing rooms for singers and gloomy dungeons. A scary Ghost lives in the basements, in love with a young singer Kristina Dahe. Who is he: an evil genius, rejected by people because of his ugliness, or a fiend from hell? The A1 novel "The Phantom of the Opera" is presented in a new, modern translation by Vera Gordienko, which conveys not only the infernal charm of the work, but also the dynamic action characteristic of a detective investigation.