10 best-selling horror books like The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re…

"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

If you liked the horror plot in The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason

1. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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2. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

Similar categories in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

3. Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He’s more myself than I am"

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Terror made me cruel . . ."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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4. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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5. The Phantom of Manhattan

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera. In The Phantom of Manha… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Forsyth's The Phantom of Manhattan book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn Peake, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss

7. The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.30

Format: 1276 pages, Paperback

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress o… read more

Similar categories in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I am a Count, Not a Saint."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"He who has a partner has a master."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !"

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Cover of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock, Norman MacAfee

8. Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo , Lee Fahnestock , Norman MacAfee

4.20

Format: 1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped … read more

Similar categories in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Be happy without picking flaws."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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9. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

Cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

10. Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more

Similar categories in Bram Stoker's Dracula book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Despair has its own calms."

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

11. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Cover of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

12. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

Similar categories in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

13. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. … read more

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14. Phantom

By: Susan Kay , None

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

This incredible portrait of Erik--the Phantom--recreates his entire life, from his survival as a ch… read more

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15. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Cover of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

16. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

Similar categories in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

17. Emma

By: Jane Austen , Fiona Stafford

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Beaut… read more

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18. Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff

4.27

Format: 671 pages, Paperback

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • literature
  • fiction
"Life [had] replaced logic."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Cover of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb

19. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

Similar categories in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • romance
  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein: The 1818 Text book and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera

  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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