Issue 19 includes a chapbook of poetry, In the Russian Manner, by Phantasm editor Phillip Hemenway. This 14-page supplement is printed on a Heidelberg 10 x 15 windmill letterpress by editor Larry S. Jackson who set the lead type by hand, one character at a time.  Norman Mallory provides an illustration for the cover which Jackson prints by offset.

Oleg Shestinsky, Phantasm's guest columnist, writes about the USSR Writer's Union of which he was secretary.

Jose Montoya shares the excitement generated from the run-down cantina called the Reno Club in Sacramento, where a diverse international crowd is treated to Chicano literature.

Ruth Dean interviews Larry Jackson for her article "Friends Helping Friends at the Arts Endowment?" (The Washington Star, January 14, 1979): "'... Mary MacArthur, I think is a good woman. As far as I'm concerned the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) program is handled well.' Jackson's beef is with the manner the NEA-funded CCLM (Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines) subgrants small presses, allegedly favoring some over others with consistently high grants year after year. 'I think there should be a ceiling on the total amount they receive,' he said 'In fact I'd like to see the system abolished in favor of giving the money to librarians who have some basis on which to judge the new literature coming out of the small presses.'"

David Farkas gives Phantasm a two-page glowing review in Magic Changes' (Schaumburg, Illinois) first edition, writing about issue 19.