A Book of Spooks and Spectres is a 1979 anthology of 23 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders and first published in the United Kingdom by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
In the introduction, the author writes: "If you were to meet a Spook and a Spectre walking together, would you know which was which? Not necessarily. Both are ghostly beings, and you might possibly mistake one for the other. Yet there is a great difference. Spooks have always been Spooks; they have a king to rule over them, and a country of their own. Spectres, on the other hand, have not always been Spectres. They were once creatures of flesh and blood, generally human beings, who after death, find the gates of heaven and hell shut against them, and so must return to earth."
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