Collocations for spectre - noun

grim (esp. BrE), ominous
The grim spectre of terrorism cast its shadow.

old
constant
looming
the looming spectre of a financial crisis

twin
the twin spectres of addiction and violence

evoke, invoke, raise
Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock-market crash.

face, see
banish, exorcize
an attempt to exorcize the spectre of poverty

hang over sb/sth, haunt sb/sth, hover over sb/sth, loom, loom over sb/sth

spectre of
The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.