fantasy vs story

fantasy

verb
  • To fantasize (about). 

  • To imagine; to conceive mentally. 

noun
  • That which comes from one's imagination. 

  • A fantastical design. 

  • The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid. 

  • The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc. 

story

verb
  • To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about. 

noun
  • A lie, fiction. 

  • A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account. 

  • An account of real or fictional events. 

  • A soap opera. 

  • A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period. 

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