Richard Connell 
The Most Dangerous Game 

First published in 1924,  ’The Most Dangerous Game’, also published as
‘The Hounds of Zaroff’, is a short story by American writer Richard Connell.



‘The Most Dangerous Game’ features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. 



The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris that were fashionable among wealthy Americans.



This short story has been adapted numerous times.