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