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Spook is a synonym of ghost or apparition, derived from the Dutch spook. It or its plural spooks may also refer to:
Expressions
- Agents or people involved in espionage
- Agents or people involved in military intelligence
- A racial slur used for black people
Places
- Spook Cave, a flooded cave in Iowa
- Spook Hill, a gravity hill in Florida
People
- Spook Jacobs (1925–2011), American professional baseball player
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Spook (comics), fictional character in the DC Comics universe
- A character from The Wardstone Chronicles (published in the United States as The Last Apprentice)
- A character in the comic strip The Wizard of Id
- A character from Top Cat
Film
- Spooks (cartoon), a 1930 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short
- Spooks! (1953), a Three Stooges short film
Games
- Spooks (video game), a 1985 video game
Literature
- Spectres, Spooks, and Shuddery Shakes (1977), a short story anthology edited by Helen Hoke, illustrated by W.R. Lohsse, and published by Franklin Watts
- Spirits, Spooks, and Other Sinister Creatures (1984), a short story anthology edited by Helen Hoke and published by Franklin Watts
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), a humorous scientific exploration of the afterlife, by Mary Roach
- Spooks, Spooks, Spooks: Stories and Poems of the Supernatural (1966), a short story anthology edited by Helen Hoke which includes "Demon at Green Knowe" (1964) by Lucy M. Boston
Music
Artists
- The Spooks, an American hip-hop band
Albums
- Spooks (album), a 2010 album by The Beautiful Girls
Television
- Spooks, a UK TV show (called MI-5 in some countries)
- The Spooks, an American hip-hop band
Vehicles
- Mine Protected Combat Vehicle, a Zimbabwean armoured fighting vehicle nicknamed the "Spook"
See also
- Spoke (disambiguation)
- Spooky (disambiguation)
- The Human Stain (2000), a novel by Philip Roth centered on the word
- The Human Stain (film), a 2003 American drama film based on Roth's novel