![]() ![]() Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In this new collection of chilling tales by the author of The Phantom of the Opera, most of them written in the 1920s when Leroux was at his peak, stories of macabre murder, of hauntings, of a husband who guillotines his wife, of a gambler who longs to lose and cannot do so, and of a horrifying night in a waxworks museum can be read alongside the real events behind Gaston Leroux's most famous work. But what is the dreadful secret that Lonstalot harbours in the depths of his great house? And will Lalouette too fall prey to the dreadful fate of the other victims? In A Terrible Tale Captain Michel decides to tell his compatriots how he came to lose his arm, recalling the secret of the house of the lady of the lamp, and the terror of the ghostly light. ![]() Gaspard Lalouette, an officer of the Academy, determines to visit the great Lonstalot, scientist and member of the Academy, to find some answers to the trail of death. In The Haunted Chair death seems to follow whoever is elected to the chair formerly occupied by the late Monsieur d'Abbeville at the French Academy. ![]()
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