We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, for the start of our third annual Classic Horror sleep story series, we’ll read the opening to “The Phantom of the Opera” written by Gaston Leroux, published in 1909. Be sure to catch our other snoozy, and a bit creepy, sleep stories every Wednesday this October. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and partly by an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton, inspired by a German opera. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices