Spirited relations (5,7)
I believe the answer is:
ghost stories
'spirited' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'relations' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'relations' could be 'stories' (story is a kind of relation) and 'stories' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ghost' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for ghost stories that I've seen is " Literary genre".)