One spectre that appears often in the stories is the "dematerialization" of shopping.
It's a spectre that is brought up by multiple speakers, including Lazarus, in Ipswich.
Pakistan's economic isolation would raise the spectre that makes Pakistanis and westerners alike shudder: default, devaluation, inflation, revolution.
According to legend, the town has a guardian spectre that can be summoned by a magical flute in times of need.
Urgent action is required to tackle the spectre that is haunting Europe – high and persistent levels of youth unemployment, coupled with the transmission of disadvantage between generations.
If there is a spectre that hangs over this squad then it is England's record in the past two European Championships.
But tough as this feral existence might be, it's certainly preferable to the workhouse, that looming spectre that awaits those no longer capable of fending for themselves.
He would not have put it quite this way, but he was haunted by the same spectre that has haunted many other critics of the liberal welfare state: the spectre of soul death.
And after five years of civil conflict, Tajikistan's president has achieved a fragile coalition with the Islamic opposition.Another spectre that has long haunted western diplomats has also been kept at bay: surging Islamic fundamentalism.
Irish critics fear this economic death-spiral could lead to a decade of grinding austerity, a generation lost to unemployment and, worse, the return of a spectre that has haunted Ireland for two centuries: mass emigration.
And its confluence with the miniseries confirmed, if there were ever a real doubt, that the story of the trial will be a spectre that hangs over national affairs through the twenty-first century and probably beyond.
