The Most Dangerous Game (1924)

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(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game Retrieved:2022-11-10.
- "The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland. ^[1] The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. The story has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks and Fay Wray, and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles. It has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English." Upon its publication, it won the O. Henry Award. “The Most Dangerous Game" is one of many works that entered the public domain in the United States in 2020.

↑ The illustrator, Wilmot Emerton Heitland, is given in the January 19, 1924 issue of Collier's magazine.