SurveyWho Is Erik?
Erik, the protagonist of Gaston Leroux’s immortal classic The Phantom of the Opera is a deformed genius with a dark past who has taken up residence in the cellars of the Paris Opera (also known known as the Palais Garnier--Garnier's palace, named for Charles Garnier, its architect) since its construction in which he is said to have taken part.
He is described as wearing a dinner jacket that hangs on a skeleton frame, having eyes set so deeply that one can hardly see the pupils... only two large black holes as in the skulls of the dead, pasty yellow skin stretched over his bones tight as a drumhead, a nose so insignificant that one cannot see it side-face and only three or four long dark locks of hair behind his ears.
He had a heart capacious enough to contain the whole world, but he had to content himself with a cellar. Poor unhappy Erik!
And now, for the very first time ever, Erik, Gaston Leroux's original Opera ghost, is available in all his hideous glory... as a plush toy.