
As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" http://www.mediafire.com/view/za1l4i1dftotwg9/.png by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
“A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.”
Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Preamble, paragraph 1, line 1.
Toady "Nothing 'Bleak' about PBS for Gillian Anderson" http://www.today.com/id/10912748/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/nothing-bleak-about-pbs-gillian-anderson/#.VpKEALZ96Uk (January 18, 2006)
2000s
“A spectre is haunting Western academia (…), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.”
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (London/New York: Verso, 1999), p. 1.
Attributed to McNaughton online, this actually is a quote from an English edition of The History of the Caliph Vathek (1786) by William Thomas Beckford, as translated by Samuel Henley.
Misattributed
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 591.