Interesting choice. This story seems to have floated around a bit. It is also the first story broadcast by "suspense" and the commentary of that particular suspense episode says that Hitchcock and the director chose it themselves. He also makes an appearance at the end of that broadcast. They refer to it as "one of our favorite stories" or something like that. Indicating that it was not a new story then either. I wonder how much of the "lifting" that we all can clearly see is homage. It would also be interesting to find out if this and perhaps some of the twilight zone episodes we have noticed were borrowed from by mystery theater were in the public domain. There is an eposide of the twilight zone where a lady is traveling cross country. She keeps seeing a man gesturing to her. In the end she is dead and this man is death trying to get her attention. This exact story is also one of the suspense episodes (incidentally starring orson wells). It seems the producers, directors, and writers of these shows passed around a few stories that were familiar to them all. I liked this episode though I admit it had more to do with seeing the updated version of a story I was familiar with as opposed to the actual story itself. Like most of the choices here, I liked this one.