The most dangerous game
by Richard Connell · first published 1990
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The Most Dangerous Game is the popular short story originally published in 1924 which was written by Richard Connell. This is the story of a big game hunter who is trapped on an island with a fellow hunter, who is uninterested in hunting stereotypical prey, and instead decides that the only prey worthy of his skills is other humans. This title is often required reading in middle schools, and has been since adapted into movies and extended versions. This title is the original version by the author, and is considered one of the greatest short stories ever written.
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Can also recommend the Ted Chiang story Understand [1], which adds in a dash of The Most Dangerous Game. [1] https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40835
on “Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]” ↗I read a lot of good ones in school: * Hills like White Elephants by Hemingway * A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor * Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut * Most Dangerous Game
on “Ask HN: What's the most thought provoking short story you've read?” ↗Richard Connell wrote the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" on this topic. That was 100 years ago and now it's real.
on “Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'” ↗…"unrealistic". When I was in high school, we used to read these miserable, loathful stories about people having affairs (The Awakening), or committing suicide (Ethan Frome), or murdering each other for fun (The Most Dangerous Game), or a variety of other unpleasant topics, and I would get sick of these books and ask the instructor why we couldn't read a happy book once in a while. "That's not how real life works," she quipped.…
on “I Choose Superman” ↗…than animals since they were more intelligent. Similar sentiments were communicated during the three-part cipher mailed to newspapers. Allen also mentioned to the police that his favourite book was The Most Dangerous Game, a book about killing humans and possibly alluded to in a Zodiac correspondence. >In 1991, the search warrant for Allen's house found bomb diagrams and the same ingredients for bombs that were mentioned…
on “Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer” ↗