Just in time for the upcoming spooky season, Aladdin is rereleasing three more books — Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven — in its Monstrous Classics Collection.
Three other books in the collection — Bram Stoker’s Dracula Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein were rereleased with reimagined covers in 2024.
All six books will be available in a boxed set Sept. 16.
Learn more about the newest offerings below.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, by Gaston Leroux, Aladdin, Aug. 5, 2025, Hardcover, $17.99 (young adult)
A new generation of young readers is sure to delight in this enduring tale of love and torment by Gaston Leroux originally published in 1909.
Filled with the spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the 19th century, this classic work of suspense remains a riveting journey into the dark regions of the human heart. The tale begins as an investigation into the strange stories of an “Opera ghost,” said to scare performers as they sit alone in their dressing rooms or walk along the building’s labyrinthine corridors.
But it isn’t until the triumphant performance of beautiful soprano Christine Daaé that the Phantom begins his attacks—striking terror in the hearts of everyone in the theater. —Synopsis provided by Aladdin
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW & OTHER STORIES, by Washington Irving, Aladdin, Aug. 5, 2025, Hardcover, $17.99 (young adult)
This perfectly spooky volume collects some of the most well-known Washington Irving tales originally published in the early to mid-19th century for a new generation of young readers.
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a ghost story of enduring popularity. In it, lovelorn schoolteacher Ichabod Crane tries to woo local heiress Katrina Van Tassel, only to draw the ire of another of her suitors—Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt—who makes Ichabod the target of practical jokes. One night, at a party, Brom relays the tale of the Headless Horseman, a warrior decapitated by a cannonball who rises from his grave in their own town of Sleepy Hollow nightly to search for his missing head. When Ichabod leaves the party, he’s pursued by a cloaked rider. Could this be the Horseman…and can Ichabod escape him?
“Rip Van Winkle” tells the tale of man living in colonial America who falls asleep for twenty years, waking to find his small town in the Catskill Mountains much changed.
These and many other tales are included in this classic collection by Washington Irving. —Synopsis provided by Aladdin
THE RAVEN & OTHER WRITINGS, by Edgar Allan Poe, Aladdin, Aug. 5, 2025, Hardcover, $17.99 (young adult)
This deliciously eerie volume collects some of the most well-known of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales and poems originally published in the early to mid-19th century for a new generation of young readers.
Acknowledged as one of the most brilliant American writers, Edgar Allan Poe crafted a fantastic world filled with mystery and horror that has thrilled readers for generations. This collection includes Poe’s most famous tales and poems.
In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a man crafts the perfect murder only to be haunted by guilt. “The Fall of the House of Usher” sees the last members of a family meet their grisly end. “The Purloined Letter” follows a detective searching for a letter stolen from the queen. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition faces unimaginable torture in “The Pit and the Pendulum.”
All three poems—“The Raven,” “Lenore,” and “Annabel Lee”—center around the deaths of young women and the sadness left in their wake. —Synopsis provided by Aladdin
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