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  • noun uncountable The condition of being spooky
  • noun countable Something characteristic of a spook

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Examples

  • The old 1970s TV recordings of his stories are worth downloading if you haven't seen them, although perhaps the most atmospheric way to experience one of his masterly bits of spookery is to go to one of actor Robert Lloyd Parry's superb solo performances as I did in January.

    A terrifying Christmas in prospect 2010

  • I wish more horror movies or any could mine this vein, because I think the combination of Judeo-Christian scare tactics and old school spookery is a dynamite combo.

    Spook-no-show Arbogast 2007

  • Know there was no such wreck, and none of your spookery.

    The Passengers of a Retarded Submersible 1917

  • Know there was no such wreck, and none of your spookery.

    A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

  • Old news in the world of surveillance and spookery today, as the original 1946 secret treaty between the UK and US which set up the famous "Echelon" listening system is finally published.

    The Register 2010

  • Home video mocumentary spookery has indeed lighted upon a mysterious phenomenon.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Among the latest revelations of out-of-control secret state spookery, Wired disclosed that personal details on customers have been provided to the Bureau by the Wyndham Worldwide hotel chain "which includes Ramada Inn, Days Inn, Super 8, Howard Johnson and Hawthorn Suites."

    AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09 2009

  • Given the extraordinary queues outside Angels fancy dress store last night, many of you are gearing up for several days of pumpkins, fake blood, unusual outfits and spookery.

    Londonist 2009

  • MIRRORS (2008, Fox, R, $30) - Here's yet another Asian horror remake that fails to capture the slippery spookery of the original.

    Latest News 2009

  • MIRRORS (2008, Fox, R, $30) - Here's yet another Asian horror remake that fails to capture the slippery spookery of the original.

    Latest News 2009

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