8 free books by Gaston Leroux. 8 you can read right here.
Born 1868 in rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin · Died 1927 in Boulevard Gambetta
writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist · France
Notable works: The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Perfume of the Lady in Black, The Secret of the Night, La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #1685 (public domain in the USA).
There are moments when one feels as if one’s brain were about to burst. A bullet in the head, a fracture of the skull, the seat of reason shattered—with only these can I compare the sensation which exhausted and left me void of sense.
— Spoken by a character · XVII. The Inexplicable Gallery