Before talking about the game, the history of the term phantasmagoria should be discussed. In the 17th century, a German Jesuit scholar by the name of Athanasius Kircher teamed up with Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens to create the magic lantern. The device used candlelight to project images using lenses and mirrors. By the 18th century, following the French Revolution, the French took the tool to the extreme in the name of art.
Before long, skeletons were magically dancing on walls as an early form of theater and became known as phantasmagoria. Over time it developed into the precurser of the horror movie genre.
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