Question
For 10 points each, name these authors and stories that inspired episodes of The Twilight Zone.
[10e] Bizarrely, a French film adaptation of this author's story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was shown in the U.S. as an episode of The Twilight Zone's fifth season.
ANSWER: Ambrose Bierce
[10m] Rod Serling's episode "The Silence" is a reworking of this story by Anton Chekhov, in which a lawyer agrees to spend fifteen years in total isolation for two million rubles.
ANSWER: "The Bet" [or "Pari"]
[10h] This author wrote "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Death Ship," as well as their Twilight Zone adaptations. Robert Neville believes that he is the only man to survive a vampire apocalypse in this author's novel I Am Legend.
ANSWER: Richard Matheson [Richard Burton Matheson]
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