![]() ![]() After leaving the circus, Erik becomes an apprentice to a stone mason, and experiences an adolescent crush on the mason's daughter, but after his appearance inadvertently causes a terrible tragedy, he escape once again, this time to Persia, and the queens court. The cruel owners capitalize off his hideous face and his hauntingly beautiful singing. The child, Erik's, childhood is spent longing for the love of a mother whose only gift to him was a mask.Įventually Erik runs away and joins a circus freak show. The child's face is severely deformed, and despite the signs of genius he shows from his early days, she cannot bring herself to love him. "Phantom" begins with a young widow giving birth to her only child. ![]() "In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the Opera" in greater depth and detail. ![]()
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