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    In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
    In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By Gaston Leroux

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    Gaston Leroux is France's most famous author of detective and mystery fiction. The author of The Phantom of the Opera penned a large amount of excellent short fiction, and 'In Letters of Fire' is one of his best-remembered tales. Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9781447499671
    In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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    Gaston Leroux

    Gaston Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. He grew up on the Normandy coast, where he developed a passion for fishing and sailing. Upon reaching adulthood, he qualified as a lawyer, but, upon his father's death, his received a large inheritance, and left the law to become a writer. He first found fame as an investigative reporter on L'Echo de Paris, and travelled the world in a variety of disguises, reporting on a wide range of topics from volcanic eruptions to palace revolutions. In 1907, he changed career once again, and started work as a novelist, finding critical and commercial success with works such as The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) and The Phantom of the Opera (1911). Leroux continued to be a prolific writer until his death in 1927 - the result of complications following an operation.

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      In Letters of Fire (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - Gaston Leroux

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      GASTON LEROUX

      Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. In his youth he enjoyed sailing and fishing, and attended school in Caen, where he began writing poetry and short stories while studying the works of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He then travelled to Paris to study law, obtaining his degree in 1889 despite the fact that he had largely lost interest in the profession. When his father died in that same year, Leroux inherited a large amount of money, and lived wildly for a while, developing a taste for expensive food and wine and high-stakes gambling. In 1890 he started working as a court reporter and theatre critic for L’Écho de Paris, and then went on to become international correspondent for the Parisian newspaper Le Matin.

      As a noted reporter, Leroux attended trials, interviewed prisoners, and observed executions by guillotine. He also travelled widely, finding himself in Russia during the 1905 revolution, and even getting as far as Asia and Africa, witnessing first-hand some remarkable events of his time. Leroux began to dabble in fiction, producing Seeking of the Morning’s Treasures in 1903, and four years later he abandoned journalism altogether to focus on his fiction. In 1908 he published The Mystery of the Yellow Room, starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Rouletabille went on to feature in a number of popular novels, and Leroux’s contribution to French detective fiction is now viewed as parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s in the United Kingdom. Aside from his detective fiction, Leroux is best-remembered in the English-speaking world for his 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which has spawned a number of well-known adaptations.

      Leroux died in Nice, France in 1927, having published almost fifty novels.

      In Letters of Fire

      Gaston Leroux

      We had been out hunting wild boars all day, when we were overtaken by a violent storm, which compelled us to seek refuge in a deep cavern. It was Makoko, our guide, who took upon himself to give utterance to the thought which haunted the minds of the four of us who had sought safety from the fury of the tempest – Mathis, Allan, Makoko, and myself.

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