I didn't know until recently when I heard it on the radio that "Death and the Maiden" is a famous piece by Franz Schubert, who was inspired by an earlier poem of that title, they don't give the year but the poet died in 1815, so the idea is very old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...et_No._14_(Schubert) This article also shows a painting from the 1500s of the same title.

Bradbury was doubtless inspired by some of these sources in writing his own story, "Death and the Maiden." Elements of that story and Bradbury's other, more well-known story "There Was an Old Woman" turn up in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark," by George Clayton Johnson, although they are similar but not identical. It goes to show how different artists have their own take on the same sort of ideas.