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The Phantom of The Opera is a Gothic novel, combining romance, horror fiction, mystery, tragedy.

The story is about a man named Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris, France. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano Christine, under his wing.

Meanwhile, Erik has taken on a protégée, Christine Daae. He explains to her that he is the "Angel of Music,"
a heavenly spirit sent by her dead father to help her, and proceeds to
give her regular voice lessons through the wall of her remote dressing
room. Under the tutelage of her new teacher, Christine makes rapid
progress in her vocal studies and mysteriously achieves sudden
prominence on stage when she is selected to replace Carlotta, who was
suddenly ill that day. Christine stuns the audience with her seemingly
new vocal talent when she performed selections from Faust. During the performance she faints on stage, which deeply troubles her childhood friend Raoul, Viscount de Chagny.

Erik becomes envious of Christine’s relationship with Raoul and
finally appears to her in person, wearing a mask to hide his features.
He takes her to his dark world beneath the opera house. Christine
quickly finds that there is nothing angelic about Erik; she learns with
disappointment that he is "neither an angel nor a genius," only that he
and the ghost are one and the same - just a man. And comes to know him
as malicious, volatile, dangerous and somewhat bitter, yet also
brilliant and pitiful. She is infuriated at having been deceived and
demands to be set free. Erik promises to release her after five days.
After some awkward moments (dining by herself while he watches, being
shown his room which looks like a death chamber, his bed a coffin) Erik
and Christine eventually begin a duet from Otello, and Christine rips
off his mask, dying of curiosity. "If I live to be one hundred, I
should always hear that superhuman cry of grief and rage which he
uttered before that terrible sight reached my eyes," Christine later
tells Raoul. Erik is furious at having his deformity exposed to someone
whom he thought could love him. He threatens to keep her in his home
forever, but later changes his mind. Christine is released, but only
after promising to return by her own will and swearing never to give
her love to anyone else. Christine does return out of pity and fear.

But Erik isn’t the only one with an envious nature. After
Christine’s debut performance, Raoul overhears her succumbing to a
tyrannical, disembodied voice in her dressing room (Erik). He becomes
suspicious that another man is taking advantage of her innocent belief
in an "Angel of Music" in order to seduce her. He starts spying on her
in an attempt to find the mysterious seducer. Christine suddenly
becomes aware of this and is very angry but, after Erik reveals himself
to be the Ghost (and after Raoul’s threat of suicide), she decides to
tell Raoul, on the roof of the Opera Garnier, everything that has
happened between her and Erik. The two of them plan to run away from
Paris and the "horror of Erik".

Erik eavesdrops on their conversation, and comes up with another one
of his ingenious plans of action. He abducts Christine from the stage
during her final performance at the Opera Garnier as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust,
at the point where Christine, as Marguerite, is appealing to the angels
to carry her soul to heaven (the aria is best known as "Anges purs,
anges radieux"). Raoul follows them down into the depths of the cavern
beneath the opera house, and is guided to Erik’s house by a character
known as the Persian. Unfortunately for both of them, the route they
take to Erik’s house leads instead to a torture chamber (a catoptric cistula),
where they are captured by Erik. Raoul and the Persian listen
helplessly as Erik rages at Christine, accusing her of lying to him and
betraying him. He threatens that should Christine not marry him, he
will explode the Opera Garnier. Christine, already on the brink of suicide, sadly accepts his proposal at 11pm the next night, Erik’s "deadline."

Eventually, Christine shows Erik genuine sympathy and displays her
love for him by crying with him, not running away when he takes off his
mask, and even kisses him on the forehead. This grants Erik a happiness
he never thought possible. In despair, Erik releases Raoul and
Christine and gives them his blessings to marry. He asks only that
Christine come back after his death, and bury him with the ring he gave
her. Erik dies three weeks after he lets Christine and Raoul go.

Right before his death, Erik delivers a dramatic monologue
expressing his grief, in which he describes how Christine was the only
woman to let him kiss her, his brief euphoria when she kissed him, his
despair at having the love of his life betrothed to another, and his
gratitude to the Persian Daroga, who once saved his life. He dedicates
his death to his beloved Christine Daaé, and sadly dies shortly after
her departure.