phantasmal

This phantasmal region holds a particular lure for Osborn—not simply to uncover its hidden biodiversity but also to find out how living things can survive such extreme conditions.

That phantasmal sound, that subliminal beat, untethered to time but bound to the Earth, informed Gay’s approach to the album.

The lighting transforms them into phantasmal silhouettes, like blurred figures from an old photograph album.

According to Kröger and Anderson, her ghost stories form a “phantasmal paradigm shift” in the evolution of the genre.

But that’s the effect of this clever writer who undulates so eerily from phantasmal excess to psychological realism.