revenant

Furthermore, if your ghost is a revenant, which has increased speed, Ring Around the Rosie is near impossible to complete without dying.

Another revenant came back about that time, along the dimly blazed trails of fate.

The Jena was a remarkably fine and fast vessel, and, as the Revenant privateer, had formerly cruised long and very successfully.

Did I bestride a metempsychosized man-eater, a revenant from the bloody days of Nuka-hiva?

Now, when she thought of him at all, it was as of some revenant of kindly countenance from a half-forgotten dream.

Like that shadowy majesty of Denmark, our dramatic author was a "revenant."