"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier\'s on January 19, 1924.
The story is inspired by the big-Game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans.
The story features a big-Game hunter from New York City who falls off 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 Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier\'s on January 19, 1924