In an introduction he penned to the novelisation of the Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, Leroux claims (a claim he apparently stood by on his deathbed): He first became fascinated by the story of the ‘opera ghost’ after hearing the tale of a chandelier falling on an audience when the Paris Opera first opened. He filed stories from Russia, Africa and across Asia, but it was his own backyard that inspired him most. Leroux himself had a life worthy of a novel: a shipping heir, he blew through his inheritance and became an intrepid journalist. It’s difficult to know how entirely a product of Gaston Leroux’s imagination Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is.
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