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Several years later, Serling adapted this and other episodes into short stories for a book, Stories From the Twilight Zone.

Reportedly dissatisfied with the lack of science fiction content, he added an additional twist to the end by having Mike Ferris discover a movie ticket in his pocket after being carried away on the stretcher.

A variation on this twist was later used in " King Nine Will Not Return ".