It's time for another roundup and, weirdly, it's another tiny one!

Angel's Fall by Jessica Mason is the final novel in Mason's period Erik & Christine romantic trilogy, and promises plenty of romantic drama.

And lest we forget our audiobookers, two new options for them!

Steel Phantom by James J. Caterino has shown up here before as a screenplay, but this is the novel form, and it also has an audiobook option. I'm not sure how much I can recommend it - it looks like it might be auto-generated from text-to-speech technology, which is usually pretty robotic - but it's out there!

Finally, Audible has a new audiobook reading of Leroux's original novel narrated by Simen Esther, so if you're one of those folks that loves to compare and contrast, go for it!

And that's genuinely it for February. The romances must be stuck in the processing queue somewhere.

Just two new ones this month! We're all tired in January. I get it.

Angel of the Opera House by Kathy Johnson is a short sequel to the original story involving a second chance at love for the Phantom; it appears to be influenced at least some by Kay's novel, since it give his last name as "Nadir," but that could also just be fandom cross-pollination. We'll see!

Symphony of the Night by Germaine Mooney is the lastest in a series of short story anthologies, all focused on the characters of the original novel with a distinctly romantic bent.

And that was all she wrote this time! We'll see if Valentine's Day brings more new stuff out of the woodwork.

Obviously I missed the end of December slightly! I hope you'll all forgive me. It was dark and cold and I fell asleep a lot.

Anyway, only a few new entries this month! (Let's hope Valentine's Day gets us more soon!)

Phantom of the Fringe by Ray Else is a surprise; I hadn't expected to see any more of Else's "Phantom" series, despite its name, since most of it is notably not based on Leroux's novel. But this one, where a man named Eric and his private eye girlfriend visit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival only to be nearly killed by a "faceless stranger" may be close enough?

Phantom Requiem: Hello Isabella by Paul George is... weird. It's set in the 1800s and features a Phantom who is the result of Science Gone Wrong Experiments, perhaps dragging in a little Jekyll & Hyde or The Island of Dr. Moreau to our classic literature jamboree, and he falls in love with Isabella, the leader of some sort of political group that rescued him. That's all we know and the generalized probably-stolen-fanart image in place of a cover doesn't help much!

Son of the Phantom by Katherine Willson is the third in her series of period retellings that follow the plot of The Phantom of Manhattan/Love Never Dies, so they're a very specific taste! In it, Gustave, now 14, is on the Titanic when it sinks, leading Erik to go on a desperate bender. How could it possibly go up any further from there?

That's all for now, but cross your fingers for next time!

So... change is coming to the Phantom Library (again!).

It looks like the Library will need to move off its current hoster and be rebuilt elsewhere again. There are a few reasons for this:

What does this mean for everyone using the Library? Well, possibly some downtime, for one thing; the current Library site may have ads on it for a while as I let the Wix payments lapse while I work on finding a new home for it, but there's also the chance it may have to go down for a bit (I'll avoid it unless absolutely necessary, though!). I am keeping the phantomlibrary.com domain registered to me, so I'm hoping that once I get the site resettled elsewhere, I'll be able to redirect everyone over there without much fuss.

On the plus side, this will give me the chance to do some housekeeping stuff I've been wanting to do for a while, including cleaning up the godawful interface for the library sections and adding a search, etc. The Library's focus and mission have evolved over the years, so it was about time for a cleaner refresh anyway.

I don't know how long this will take yet; since the current site is hosted on a proprietary CMS, I can't just grab the files and slam them into a new server, so there will have to be some from-the-ground-up rebuilding before the new Library can go live. I'm hoping to get that done behind the scenes with very little for those of you using the Library to notice - but if something looks weird, now you'll know why!

Thanks to everyone who's visited over the years, and I hope it'll still be there for visits, new and improved, in the very near future. <3

Here comes a great month for new Phantom stuff!

Horrified by Lauren DeLuca is a comedy revolving around a frazzled theater manager being harassed by mysterious accidents and disappearing performers. DeLuca's done straight Phantom adaptations before, so this one is likely to be more than a little bit the same story, this time with a humorous twist.

Erik's Tale by Jessica Mason is a prequel to her adaptation of the original story, focusing largely on Erik's childhood and adolescence and specifically his time being exhibited in the traveling carnival, in the Shah's court in Persia, and various new European adventures in between.

Phantom by K.M. Mixon is a modern-day version of the story, revolving around a young woman writer who tries to retreat to work on a book only to have to deal with both a frightening stalker obsessed with her talent and a sexy landlord who may be her only hope.

The Phantom of Netherfield by Abbey North is exactly what you might be expecting - a Phantom and Pride & Prejudice crossover, in which Lizzie inherits a theater and tries to keep it afloat while a Fitzwilliam Phantom moons over her from below the stage. (For those wondering, Raoul has been cast as Wickham, so this is not a particularly pro-Raoul adaptation, I suspect.)

Phantom: The Musical is a professionally shot version of the 1991 Yeston/Kopit musical, which is extremely popular in Asia and often sees lush adaptations. This is the newest one from South Korea, featuring k-pop idol Kyuhyun from the group Super Junior in the lead role.

Phantom Fun-World is an amusement-park slasher featuring a masked Phantom who menaces Fun World and its employees, apparently due to some past trauma or betrayal. (Fun to wonder if it owes anything to the 1979 KISS film, or the Wonder Woman episode!)

Synthwave: The Phantom of the Opera is one of those neat projects putting a new spin on the 1925 Lon Chaney film, with new custom color and music to change its vibes. (These are always cool because they come close to the original theatrical experience - the movie would have been accompanied by a live organ- or piano-player and thus would have had different soundtracks at different performances!)