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This riveting installment of Gaston Lerouxs thrilling saga plunges us into the world of Chéri-Bibi, a brilliant criminal mastermind. As we join him, he finds himself in the grim confines of a penal colony somewhere in the French Empires darkest corners. Here, he forms an unlikely bond with a noble prisoner known as the Nut. Their lives are perpetually disrupted by the malicious Parisian, the Burglar, the Joker, and the Caid. Furthermore, they must constantly navigate around the Chief and his jailers, including Pernambouc the Executioner and his aide, Monsieur Desiré. As they confront ...

In the cosmopolitan Paris of the 1880s, the new proprietors of the Opera House are amused to discover that their costly acquisition is said to be haunted. But their smiles quickly vanish as tragedy follows misfortune: a murdered stagehand, a fatal accident, a missing girl. Fearful tales of the Opera Ghost race through the corridors and dressing rooms of the theatre. And with good reason - for deep in the catacombs beneath the Opera House, something is stirring.