If you've read Heather Wixson's PHANTOM THREAD column on Daily Dead, then you know how enduring, influential, and altogether timeless Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera novel has been on both the stage and the screen. Over 100 years after its initial publication, Leroux's classic book is coming to life once again on the printed page, this time in a gorgeously haunting new graphic novel by Varga Tomi, and ahead of its October release, we've been provided with exclusive preview pages to share with Daily Dead readers!
Published by A Wave Blue World, The Phantom of the Opera graphic novel is due out in trade paperback on October 20th via Diamond Book Distributors.
You can see Leroux's novel come to life in Tomi's new adaptation (which also includes inspiration from The Phantom of the Opera musical) in the preview pages below, and visit A Wave Blue World's official website for more details on The Phantom of the Opera graphic novel and other upcoming comic releases!
"Everyone has heard the whispered tales of the phantom who lives beneath the opera house, the mysterious trickster behind all the little mishaps and lost things. But no one has ever seen the monster . . . until now. When the promise of blossoming love lures him out from his intricately constructed hideaways in the labyrinthine building’s walls and cellars, a hideously disfigured artist trains the lovely Christine to be the opera’s next star for a steep price. Does she choose her newfound success or her beloved Count Raoul? This doomed love triangle threatens to combust when a tragic death, a series of betrayals, and increasingly dangerous accidents cast the players of The Palais Garnier into a heart-wrenching horror story that will echo through the ages.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the iconic gothic romance, is retold with all the spectacle its legend demands in this devoted graphic novel adaptation that marries stunning artwork with Gaston Leroux’s haunting prose.
CREATOR BIOS
Varga Tomi is a Hungarian artist and colorist. He graduated from The Kubert School in Dover, NJ in 2015. Since then he’s worked with a number of publishers and high-profile creators, most notably IDW and Kevin Eastman on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and A Wave Blue World and Marguerite Bennett on the Broken Frontier Anthology and Ghastly Tales."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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