fantasist vs illusionist

fantasist

noun
  • One who creates fantasies. 

  • One living in a fantasy world. 

  • A writer who writes in the fantasy style. 

illusionist

noun
  • One who works with illusion or sleight of hand. 

  • One who deceives by magical or mystical means. 

How often have the words fantasist and illusionist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )