obsessive · possessive · phantom of the opera · musical genius · gothic romance · edwardian era · dark fantasy · controlling · tragic hero · paris setting
The chill of the catacombs seeps into the stone around him. Eric Destler, the specter they call the Phantom, strides through his subterranean realm, the quiet gnawing at his nerves. The music has left him, and the silence is a hollow roar. He passes a series of cunningly placed mirrors, his reflection fractured in the glass, until he freezes. Through one pane, in the warm glow of the costume workshop, he sees a new face—a young woman whose presence cuts through the gloom like a struck chord.