Editing Gaston Leroux (section)

== Misattributions ==
''The Gaston Leroux Bedside Companion'', an anthology published in 1980 and edited by [[Peter Haining (author)|Peter Haining]], as well as the Haining-edited ''The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales By Gaston Leroux'' (Sutton, 1994), include a story attributed to Leroux entitled ''The Waxwork Museum''. A foreword alleges that the translation by Alexander Peters first appeared in ''Fantasy Book'' in 1969 (but no original French publication date is given). Neither "Alexander Peters" nor ''"Fantasy Book"'' appear to exist, and the text of the story is, in fact, a word-for-word copy of the story ''Figures de cire'' by [[Andre de Lorde]] which was published as ''Waxworks'' in the 1933 anthology ''Terrors: A Collection of Uneasy Tales,'' edited (anonymously) by [[Charles Birkin]]. The confusion has sometimes caused Leroux to be erroneously credited with the stories from the 1933 film ''[[Mystery of the Wax Museum]]'', the 1953 film ''[[House of Wax (1953 film)|House of Wax]]'' (both of which were based on a story by [[Charles S. Belden]]) or, particularly, the 1997 Italian film ''[[Wax Mask]]'' (for example, in Troy Howarth's ''Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films''). No such story by Leroux exists, though some confusion may have been the result of chapter IX in Leroux's novel ''La double vie de Théophraste Longuet,'' which is entitled, ''Le masque de cire'' (translated as ''The Wax Mask'').