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spookery

American  
[spook-er-ee] / ˈspuk ər i /

noun

  1. events, actions, stories, or other things that are spooky.

  2. the quality of being spooky; spookiness.

  3. Informal. espionage.


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The former director of national intelligence, now 77, was born and raised in the world of spookery.

From Washington Post May 22, 2018

In the annals of British spookery, who could surpass his sang froid?

From The Guardian Oct. 17, 2015

But more than a dead-on horror show, it’s a homage to cinematic spookery.

From Washington Post Sep. 30, 2011

His father was a spiv, at school he felt like a secret agent infiltrating the upper classes, and writing was a response to his growing sense of the futility of spookery.

From The Guardian Dec. 10, 2010

Bosswinkel was utterly shaken; more by Manasseh's curse than by the wild piece of spookery which, as he saw, the Goldsmith had been carrying on.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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