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Phantom of the Opera

  • Announcing Gothic Romance Week 2023!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!    Today’s post is a special announcement that beginning tomorrow I will be doing this year’s Gothic Romance Week.   This will likely come as no surprise to regular readers, given I do Gothic Romance Week every year for the week leading up to Samhain/Halloween.   …

  • Re-Reading the Classics for My Birthday!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to discuss a tradition that I have had for many years around my birthday.    As tomorrow is my birthday, I wanted to write about this today.    I always re-read at least one of my favorite works of…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Gothic Villains and Anti-Heroes

    For today’s post, I have decided to share a list of my five favorite male characters in Gothic literature.   These characters are all villains or at least anti-heroes.   They are the most fun male characters in these types of novels, after all!   Without further ado, here is my list. Number 5: Mr.…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Gothic Romance Couples

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of the top five Gothic Romance couples that I adore! Number 5: Lestat & Louis ~My number five choice is the main couple of The Vampire Chronicles.   Lestat and Louis were certainly always meant to be a couple, but could easily be sanitized as…

  • The Phantom of Manhattan

    Today I want to do a short review of the book The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth.    This is a novel that continued the story of The Phantom of the Opera.    Andrew Lloyd Webber himself was a great supporter of this novel, and would years later use it as a basis for…

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    Gaston Leroux’s tale of a deformed man, named Erik, haunting a beautiful young woman at an opera house in Paris is one that has become iconic.    This is likely due to the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has been a Broadway smash since the 1980s!   This happens to be my all time favorite…