PF TV's video: Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bront

Short Story: Charlotte Bronte Napoleon and the Spectre  Charlotte Brontë, the celebrated English novelist and poet, has written a ghost story — yes, you read that correctly — and a very witty one too.  In Napoleon and the Spectre, the Emperor of France is about to fall asleep when he hears a rustling sound near his bed. Unnerved, Napoleon drinks a glass of lemonade to quench his thirst and, I suspect, to quell his fear. Soon he hears a "deep groan" coming from the closet in his apartment (I thought he lived in a palace).  "Who's there?" cried the Emperor, seizing his pistols. "Speak, or I'll blow your brains out." (Does that sound like Charlotte Bronte?) This threat produced no other effect than a short, sharp laugh, and a dead silence followed. Napoleon jumps off the couch and, with sword in hand, steps toward the closet only to discover that the rustling sound was made by his cloak which had fallen from the peg. Then, just as he is about to drop off to sleep, he perceives shadows which he attributes to lit candles. "Pooh!" exclaimed Napoleon, "it was but an ocular delusion." "Was it?" whispered a hollow voice, in deep mysterious tones, close to his ear.