Bookworm Antics - Leroux's Phantom

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, why not read about undying love, possession, and true love? Gaston Leroux was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. In return, he wrote this enduing tale: The Phantom of the Opera.

Contents

Chapter
	PROLOGUE
I	IS IT A GHOST?
II	THE NEW MARGARITA
III	THE MYSTERIOUS REASON
IV	BOX FIVE
V	THE ENCHANTED VIOLIN
VI	A VISIT TO BOX FIVE
VII	FAUST AND WHAT FOLLOWED
VIII	THE MYSTERIOUS BROUGHAM
IX	AT THE MASKED BALL
X	FORGET THE NAME OF THE MAN'S VOICE
XI	ABOVE THE TRAP-DOORS
XII	APOLLO'S LYRE
XIII	A MASTER-STROKE OF THE TRAP-DOOR LOVER
XIV	THE SINGULAR ATTITUDE OF A SAFETY-PIN
XV	CHRISTINE! CHRISTINE!
XVI	MME. GIRY'S REVELATIONS
XVII	THE SAFETY-PIN AGAIN
XVIII	THE COMMISSARY, THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN
XIX	THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN
XX	IN THE CELLARS OF THE OPERA
XXI	INTERESTING VICISSITUDES
XXII	IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER
XXIII	THE TORTURES BEGIN
XXIV	BARRELS! BARRELS!
XXV	THE SCORPION OR THE GRASSHOPPER: WHICH
XXVI	THE END OF THE GHOST'S LOVE STORY
	EPILOGUE
	(plus a "bonus chapter" called "THE PARIS OPERA HOUSE")

Source: Project Gutenberg

Ghost Town

Staff Writer: DL Mullan

4 ½ out of 5 shovels
A cold hearted, bastard of a dentist goes into a routine medical procedure, but instead he dies for seven minutes. When he woke, he began to see the dead. Every spirit began following him around so that their loved ones could be helped. He does every thing not to help anyone except for one spirit who makes a deal with him.

On his way to spirit nullification, the dentist falls in love with the ghost’s former wife. He tries to sweep her off her feet but only forms a rift between him and his intended. She does not believe his psychic excuse.

Undaunted, the dentist tries one last time to convince her of his sincerity. As she begins to open up to him, he nearly dies. At the end, romance is saved by the need for a dentist.

A Christmas Carol meets French Kiss scenario is aptly played by Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni, and Craig Kinnear. Now on DVD.