spectre

• “Still, as his career continues, Dynamo finds that a certain spectre of the past keeps popping up …”

  Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News

• “In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother.”

  Angelica by Arthur Phillips: Book summary

• “A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic.”

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• “What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming.”

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• “That cult classic television series dealt with a reporter who, in investigating a series of bizarre murders, would always come across some supernatural spectre from the past.”

  Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars

• “How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books.”

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• “subterranean folk" who dwelt there, and whom he described as a spectre herd, with little, ugly, pale, or bluish human shapes, dotted in grey, and with black head-gear.”

  Strife and Peace

• “The fact the spectre is a dead man adds a bitter-sweet tone to the scene that just made the easy camaraderie seem even warmer.”

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• “This spectre, which is profoundly believed in by the villagers, had not been seen for at least two years before the murder, but she made a reappearance a night or two after the crime, and is supposed to have been seen frequently ever since.”

  The Shrieking Pit

• “At that same instant the iron door opened wide, and between its receding wings stood a spectre -- a spectre was the only name for it, as it had no resemblance to anything human.”

  The Day of Wrath

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