"Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a Phantasma, or a hideous dream.
"Emerson and Other Essays"
John Jay Chapman
"Phantasma-goria," howled Colline, letting fall one of the bottles he held by his hand.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger
Thus spoke the Shade; and as when autumn's haze Rolls from a ghostly hill, and gives to view The various life of troubled human days, So round the phantom, pale Phantasma grew, And landscapes rose on either side the still River of Time, whose waves are human hours.
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton