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| "The Most Dangerous Game" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Richard Connell | |
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 Text available at Wikisource | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Adventure, short story |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Collier's |
| Publication type | Magazine |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | January 19, 1924 |
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell,[1] first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland.[2][3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
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,[6] and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles.[7] It has been called the "most popular short story ever written in English."[8] Upon its publication, it won the O. Henry Award.[4]
"The Most Dangerous Game" is one of many works that entered the public domain in the United States in 2020.[9]
- ^ Dixon, Wheeler Winston (August 24, 2010). A History of Horror. Rutgers University Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780813550398.
- ^ The illustrator, Wilmot Emerton Heitland, is given in the January 19, 1924 issue of Collier's magazine.
- ^ Ashley, Michael; Ashley, Mike; Contento, William (1995). The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 179. ISBN 9780313240300.
- ^ a b Thompson T.W (2018). "A tale of two centuries: Richard connells "The most dangerous game"". Midwest Q. Midwest Quarterly. 59 (3): 318–330. ISSN 0026-3451. OCLC 7665713791.
- ^ Connell, Richard (2017). "The Most Dangerous Game" (PDF). Stories for Men. pp. 88–107. doi:10.4324/9781315130279-7. ISBN 9781315130279. S2CID 36073866. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 27, 2019.
- ^ Hall, Mordaunt (November 21, 1932). "Leslie Banks in a Fantastic Tale of a Mad Russian Hunter -- Ann Hoarding's New Film". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
- ^ DeForest, Tim (February 10, 2017). Radio by the Book: Adaptations of Literature and Fiction on the Airwaves. McFarland. p. 225. ISBN 9781476607597.
- ^ Thompson, Terry W. (Spring 2018). "A Tale of Two Centuries: Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"". The Midwest Quarterly: 318. ProQuest 2036212072.
- ^ "Public Domain Day 2020". Duke University School of Law. Retrieved December 20, 2021.