blood-curdling vs phantom

blood-curdling

adj
  • Causing terror or horror. 

phantom

adj
  • Illusive. 

  • Fictitious or nonexistent. 

noun
  • A ghost or apparition. 

  • A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. 

  • Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. 

  • A test object. A test phantom is an object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue. 

How often have the words blood-curdling and phantom occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )