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The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Edward Connell

First published January 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

By chance the big-game hunter Rainsford has been stranded on an island owned by another hunter, General Zaroff. Zaroff reveals that he has grown bored with hunting even the most dangerous animals, and wants to match wits with human prey. Rainsford is to be pitted against him in a desperate effort to survive.

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Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1924 Collier's, January 19, 1924 P. F. Collier & Son MAGAZINE 5
June 1927 The Argosy, June 1927 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 56
February 1968 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 161
April 1968 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 161
October 1969 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 161
December 1969 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 161
February 1970 Night in Funland and Other Stories from Literary Cavalcade Scholastic Book Services Anthology 161
February 1971 The Ghouls W. H. Allen Anthology 154
April 1994 The Ghouls Bounty Books Anthology 154