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 (Stick to Your Guns album), 2022

• "Spectre" (song), 2015 song by Radiohead

"The Spectre" (song), 2017 song by Alan Walker

• "Spectre", 2015 instrumental version by 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

• "Spectres", a song from the Humanity's Last Breath album Välde

• Spectre (soundtrack), from the 2015 James Bond movie

• "Specter" (Bad Omens song), a 2025 song by Bad Omens

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

• Specter (comics), a character in Marvel Comics

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 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

• Spectre, callsign of a multiplayer character in Call of Duty: Black Ops III

• 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

See also

• Brocken spectre, the magnified shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite of the Sun's direction

• Rolls-Royce Spectre, Rolls-Royce's first electric vehicle

• Spectre-hound, a phantom black hound in Manx folklore, for example Moddey Dhoo

• Spector (disambiguation) (includes Spektor)

• Spectra (disambiguation)

• Spectrum (disambiguation)

• Spektre, techno music act