Our Guest Today: Gaston le Roux
Front cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston le Roux We were sitting under a billion stars when Rebecca told us she wanted to invite Gaston le Roux to the next Eating is Believing. He wrote The Phantom of the Opera (I found out later) and it is filled with gothic mystery, dank and dark dungeons and the love between Christine (an opera singer) and Erik (a phantom who initially appears as a ‘voice’) I was excited about this, because it could be a gloomy Eating is Believing and a little on the horror side of things. Something we haven’t had before. What I liked even more than the doom&gloom, was that Erik the ghost was actually just a deformed man, that had to hide from public view. My cup of tea for sure. I so wanted to write about the ghost we all fear, only to discover a darkness inside of us. A darkness we had to make peace with. My mind went wild, especially after I heard that there might even have been some real prisoners under the Parisian opera house. ...