"The Phantom of the Opera" By Gaston Leroux Online 

All right, people. It's here, it's free. Read it! I'm gonna get my butt kicked for this but there really is more to the phandom than the 2004 movie and if you can't even be bothered to learn the history of your own obsession, you have no right to that "ph" in your fan tag.
And for all of you who HAVE read the novel, Erik bless you.

Thank you, Phantomess!! You are amazing. I hate when people watch the 2004 movie and think they know everything about POTO! There is so much more to the fandom (pardon me, PHANDOM) then that one movie.