Their name, meanwhile, is less a homage to Phil Spector than an accident caused by their chosen one, SPECTRE ("like the terrorists in James Bond"), being already taken.
Bitter and twisted Mrs Drablow in Susan Hill's novella is the ultimate Woman in Black, but how about a black-clad sobbing spectre like Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw?
The 2006 adaptation of Fleming's novel Casino Royale also introduced a Spectre-like organisation, Quantum, to take on Bond.
In a few hours, jovial buffoon Chris Evans will present the scarily compulsive TFI Friday, while a life-size cardboard cut-out of Cocker gazes, spectre-like, over his shoulder.
With their wide-eyed, eerie stare and night time activity, lemurs are spectre-like figures of Madagascar's forests: 'lemur' means ghost in Latin, and it is not difficult to see how the enigmatic and elusive animals got their name.
When it was suggested to the Newcastle striker, who had earlier scored his 25th goal in 50 games for Eriksson, that his young accomplice's reputation alone was a Ronaldinho-like spectre in the minds of other teams, he retorted: "I like to think we have a few players like that.
Good thing that the peeps this option is marketed towards either work for government agencies with three letter names or research companies backed with from funds from SPECTRE or the like.
Genericide is mostly a spectre, and like all spectres, it serves a purpose.
At the grave's lip, secretly you imagine thenrefuse to imagine a spectre so like what you watched die, the uniquesoul you loved endures a second death.
At the grave's lip, secretly you imagine then refuse to imagine a spectre so like what you watched die, the unique soul you loved endures a second death.
These tunics and saris give the lavish fabrics of Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella a run for their money; the shimmering Palace of Mirrors – constructed, in defiance of all known health-and-safety guidelines, atop a waterfall – makes much of Spectre look like something on offer in Poundland.
