phantasmagoric

adjective

phan·​tas·​ma·​gor·​ic

-gär-

variants or less commonly phantasmagorical

-rə̇kəl 

: of, relating to, or like a phantasmagoria

the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode

—E. A. Poe

a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows

—J. C. Powys

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