Best translation of Phantom of the Opera? Recommend!

I'm currently on a classic horror reading spree, and since The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux was originally written in French, I have to ask you guys which translation you'd recommend? I want something that preserves Gaston Leroux's style, is up-to-date, and of course is unabridged. I could care less if it has a long scholarly introduction or extra features (beyond one or two footnotes for really specialized references).

Any help is appreciated! I'll be ordering this alongside the Oxford unabridged version of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Glad to be of service:

Try Barnes & Nobles edition of the book. That's what I have and it has a foreward by Peter Haining... let me know!

Thanks for your input, Happs! I have several Barnes and Noble classics editions that I like, including Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and The Time Machine / The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. The only ones I plan on replacing are The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (which I found out is somewhat abridged once I had already finished it, and now think might even be censored) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (which has only just a year ago been released in its unabridged, uncensored form).

Hey, I have all those, in the same editions too, with the exception of The Picture of Dorian Gray. You see the thing is, I don't trust online buying and if I buy a book first-hand here, I will be in flat-city for weeks, so this is why I buy second-hand books and therefore get adjusted to whatever editions / versions I have, I'm not too fussy about that (apologies, as seeing that that it is precisely your situation, right?)

So, did you find my recommendation online easily?

Also, one thing to note: The Vader is not happy of being called "Happs"... it makes him sound like a Looney Tunes character. Be careful next time, he will know!

Hey PK, it's been a week. How did it go? Got your copy?

I purchased a copy of it, along with the uncensored (Harvard) version of the aforementioned Oscar Wilde novel. The former isn't the Barnes & Noble version you recommended though - I've been checking around Amazon and their classics library seems to be out of print for the most part.

Right now I'm reading H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man. I'll probably get to Oscar Wilde when I get my package, since that was a quick, fun read when I first plowed through it, and I want to make sure that if this phase of mine ends I'll have gotten as many books read as possible. After these two works are finished I'll jump right on Gaston Leroux, though.

Somewhere in the middle of this I'll be reading Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, though I'll do that online and for free. While I prefer the comfort of reading a book copy (and am not completely and utterly opposed to reading off a Kindle; I just don't have one), this one's short and it'll be much faster and easier for my purposes.

I'm working on a list, you see. And no, it's not the Classic Halloween Literature one I already posted. This one's seee-eeecret!

So I finished The Invisible Man a couple days ago. I'd classify it as a sci-fi/horror/thriller, and an incredible one at that.

Phantom of the Opera hasn't shipped yet.