Epilogue
“You’ll find this game worth playing . . . Your brain against mine . . . And the stake is not without much value, eh?”
—Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell was a prolific writer, penning more than 300 short stories over his relatively short 30-year career, perhaps none more popular than his 1924 masterpiece The Most Dangerous Game . The story challenged basic principles of morality as it terrified readers with a gruesome plot. In it, the protagonist, an avid big game hunter, finds himself thrown overboard while in transit to his next hunting excursion. He discovers refuge on an island where he meets a fellow ardent hunter, the island’s only civilized inhabitant, who gives him a chilling ultimatum: survive a three-day ...
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