This piece draws on the famous masked-ball episode in Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, first serialized in Le Gaulois from 1909 to 1910 and published in book form by Pierre Lafitte in 1910. During the Opera’s masquerade, Erik appears as the Red Death, deliberately turning himself into a terrifying spectacle before Paris society. The scene reflects the lavish masked balls historically associated with the Paris Opéra and Leroux’s fascination with the building’s public grandeur and hidden spaces. It remains one of the novel’s defining moments, combining theatricality, menace, disguise, and Erik’s desire to command attention on his own terms.

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