noun a mental representation of some haunting experience.
— synonyms: ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre
Examples
“The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.”
“The big spider gave me a spook.”
“He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. — Max Stirner”