# Spectre

Spectre, specter or the spectre may refer to:

## Religion and spirituality

* Vision (spirituality)
* Apparitional experience
* Ghost

## Arts and entertainment
### Film and television

* Spectre (1977 film), a made-for-television film produced and written by Gene Roddenberry
* Specters (film), a 1987 horror film starring Donald Pleasence
* Spectre (1996 film), an American-Irish horror film
* Spectres (film), a 2004 supernatural drama
* Specter (2005 film), a Japanese tokusatsu film
* DC Showcase: The Spectre, a 2010 short animated film
* Spectre (2015 film), a James Bond film
* Specter (Battlestar Galactica), a Cylon in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
* Harvey Specter, a character from the TV series Suits
* Kamen Rider Specter, a character from the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ghost
* The Spectres, the main protagonists of the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels

### Music

* Spectre (musician), alias of producer and rapper Skiz Fernando
* The Spectre (rapper) (born 1986), British
* Akhenaton (rapper) (born 1968), French hip hop artist who uses Spectre as one of his aliases
* Spectres (album), 1977, by Blue Öyster Cult
* Spectre (Laibach album), 2014
* "Spectre" (Radiohead song), by the English band Radiohead
* "Spectre" (Alan Walker song), 2015
* "The Spectre" (song), 2017, by Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker
* "Spectre", a song by Christian Death
* "Spectres", a song from the Avantasia album The Mystery of Time
* "Spectres", a song from the Black Veil Brides album The Phantom Tomorrow
* "Spectres", a song from the God Is an Astronaut album Ghost Tapes #10
* Spectre, from the James Bond movie

### Literature

* SPECTRE, an evil organisation in the James Bond novels and films
* Spectre (His Dark Materials), ghostly beings in Philip Pullman's fantasy novel trilogy
* Spectre (novel), a 1998 Star Trek novel by William Shatner
* Spectre (DC Comics character), any of several DC Comics characters
* Silk Spectre, a DC Comics character
* The Specter (novel), a 1938 novel by Maxim Gorki
* The Specters, creatures in the manga Saint Seiya and its sequel

### Video games

* Spectre (1982 video game), released in 1982
* Spectre (1991 video game), 1991, for the Macintosh computer
* Spectre, an elite intelligence and military unit in the series Mass Effect
* Specter, a villain in the series Ape Escape
* Spectre, a vehicle in the Halo series
* Mercurial - The Spectre, a hero in the game mod Defense of the Ancients and its sequel
* Spectre, a necropolis unit in the Heroes of Might and Magic series
* Spectre, a character/vehicle in the first and second installments of the Twisted Metal series
* Specter, a character in SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs series
* Spectre team, a covert ops military unit in the PlayStation 3 game Resistance 2
* Spectre, callsign of the player character in MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
* Spectre, a cloaking sniper unit in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
* Master Spectre, a character from the game Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
* BRD-01 Spectre, an artificial intelligence controlled robotic unit in Titanfall
* Spectre, callsign of a multiplayer character in Call of Duty: Black Ops III
* Spectres, a type of monsters from the MMORPG game The Secret World
* Specter Knight, a boss in Shovel Knight

### Other

* Spectre (Blake), one of the elements of humans in William Blake's mythology
* Spectre (Dungeons & Dragons), an undead creature

## Military and aircraft

* USS Specter (AM-306), a minesweeper which served in World War II
* Lockheed AC-130H Spectre, an American gunship aircraft
* de Havilland Spectre, a 1950s rocket engine intended for Royal Air Force aircraft
* Spectre M4, an Italian submachine gun
* Specter Aircraft, an American aircraft manufacturer
** Specter Aircraft Specter II, an American homebuilt aircraft design
* McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, was briefly assigned the name "F-110A Spectre" by USAF, but it was never used in practice

## Places

* Spectre (fictional town), an abandoned movie set located in Alabama, created for the film Big Fish
* Specter Range, a mountain range in Nevada, US
* The Spectre (Antarctica), a rock spire in the Queen Maud Mountains

## Technology

* HP Spectre, a Hewlett-Packard computer
* Spectre (security vulnerability), a computer security vulnerability
* Spectre Circuit Simulator, for analog integrated circuits
* Spectre GCR, an add-on cartridge to run Macintosh software on an Atari ST computer

## Other uses

* Specter (surname)
* Spectre (political party), in the United Kingdom
* Spectre R42, a British sports car by Spectre Supersports and Spectre Motors
* Spectre tile, an aperiodic monotile discovered in 2023