The Phantom of Manhattan
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The Phantom of Manhattan is a book by Frederick Forsyth, intended as a sequel to The Phantom of The Opera (the Lloyd Webber musical, not the original book).
Forsyth's literary conceit was that Gaston Leroux had recorded factual events but, in review, had apparently not checked his facts or viewed his sources with a critical eye. Accordingly the novel can be read as both a tribute to the Lloyd-Webber musical and a satire of period novels in the vein of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series (both a satire and exploration of Victorian history and stories).
[edit] Literary significance and criticism
Some (or allegedly, most) Phantom of The Opera fans classify Forsyth's book as "complete junk whilst paying no heed to the original novel or any of the other literal parts of the work"; but it actually is an entire new story in another environment, another city/country and even another century, written in Forsyth's characteristic style, where the original Phantom story is just a solid background for the plot.
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