Citations:ecto-

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English citations of ecto-

“ghost-related”

ectometer (“a device for detecting ghosts”)

  • 1995 February, Web Games, Keith Bailey, Web of Stars, →ISBN:
    This handheld ectoplasmic scanning device was developed to detect spirit activity within an area. It has a location map to pinpoint a spirit's location and an ectometer to determine density of trace matter and spirit strength
  • 2011 October 6, Justin Evans, The White Devil: 'An intelligent, bristling ghost story with a stunning sense of place', Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
    I can't go about with an ectometer, scanning for murder scenes and Lord Byron's lost socks.
  • 2012 August 7, F. J. Lennon, Devil's Gate: A Kane Pryce Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 113:
    I rub my finger around the rim of the goblet until it hums its menacing tone. I tune the ectometer and find Karl quickly this time.

ectoblaster, ecto-blaster (“a gun for shooting ghosts”)

  • 2010, Andrew Newbound, Ghoul Strike!, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 174:
    A scaly hand grabbed Gloom's ecto-blaster and pulled it from its holster. A second ugly Ghoul examined the weapon closely.
  • 2011 July 21, Simon Spurrier, Contract, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
     […] whether he's a prize bare-knuckle fighter who'll beat me to paste then chew off my nose, whether he's an ex-Nazi sympathiser with a secret Thule Society ectoblaster instead of a cock […]
  • 2017 July 11, Kevin Hearne, Besieged: Book Nine: Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles, Del Rey, →ISBN:
    We could use Holtzmann's ecto-blaster thingies right about now.

ecto-mist (“vapour associated with a ghost, or a supposed ghostly blur in a photograph”)

  • 2011 February 8, Melba Goodwyn, Chasing Graveyard Ghosts: Investigations of Haunted & Hallowed Ground, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 69:
    The majority of graveyard ghost stories that involve voices being heard and ecto-mist or full apparitions being seen could very well be the work of a cemetery guardian.
  • 2020 March 31, Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: The #1 New York Times Bestseller, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
    There were no tipped-over bottles or clouds of ecto-mist swirling near the baseboards, nothing other than that weird, ominous moaning and the rattling of the walls that accompanied it.
  • 2021 July 13, Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston, Penguin, →ISBN, page 157:
    The shout sends ecto-mist ripping through his body so he rips apart at the cheeks and chest, his body splitting open at the neck and knees, until he pops in a burst of red smoke and then exits through the crevices of the door.

Other coinages

  • 1994, Computer Gaming World:
    The big difference is that you blow up this haunted houseful of spooks with an ecto-gun type of weaponry.
  • 2010, Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies, Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe, →ISBN, page 75:
    Music is life! […] It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow.
  • 2010 March 12, L'Aura Hladik, Ghosthunting New Jersey, Clerisy Press, →ISBN:
    From the ghost singing in the control booth to the “helper” ghost who hid the workman's hammer, Stanhope House is home to the blues with shades of “ecto-gray.”
  • 2012, Jeannie Holmes, “Seventeen Coppers”, in Trisha Telep, editor, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance, Philadelphia: Running Press, →ISBN, page 150:
    She’d heard of the Well of Souls and the practice of transferring ecto-impressions — the life force left behind when a person died — to the Well, but she’d never met anyone who could afford to do it.
  • 2013, Christopher Hastings, Adventures of Dr. McNinja Omnibus, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN, page 367:
    So you were at the cemetery when Dr. Franklin set off that ecto bomb.
  • 2018, Japhet Asher, The Ghostkeeper's Journal and Field Guide, London: Carlton Books, →ISBN:
    These patterns are capable of absorbing ecto-energy, so that they can be read by the SPRUNG Ghost-o-Matic Scanner and used to capture spirits of various ecto-types.
  • 2021 November 16, Charlie Jane Anders, Even Greater Mistakes: Stories, Tor Books, →ISBN:
    It's made of some kind of ghost material, ecto-whatever, but the stem is solid
  • 2024, Arthur Slade, Ghost Hotel, Shadowpaw Press, →ISBN:
    This is extremely powerful ectoplasm. It has more ectopower than I've ever seen.
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