When the famous hunterSanger Rainsford is stranded on an island in the Caribbean, he soon learns to his horror which prey is the most dangerous game. "The Most Dangerous Game" been often collected in anthologies, often referenced in writing manuals, and adapted for the big screen more than a dozen times. This collection also includes Hemingway's "The Killers," Saki's "Sredni Vashtar," London's "To Build a Fire," "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Country of the Blind," and the classic thrillers "Captain Rogers" and "Leiningen versus the Ants."

The most dangerous game is a tense story pitting man against man and the hunted against the hunter. Sanger Rainsford falls from a yacht on route to Rio de Janeiro to hunt jaguars. He manages to swim to a nearby island, but there the hunter becomes the hunted.

Short and sweet, Richard Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game' reads as well as it did when it was written nearly a century years ago. A model in lean prose that sticks to the story without unnecessary embellishment, Connell's masterpiece manages to expose weighty issues of war, ecology, and human nature that remain relevant today. There is no preaching here - simply a well-told tale. This little gem set the foundation for decades of authors and screenwriters who've picked up on the basic man-hunter theme. At half the price of a movie, "The Most Dangerous Game" is worth a detour back to one of the key building blocks of modern pop fiction.

"The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell's best known story and has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.

Der amerikanische Autor Richard Connell publizierte im Januar 1924 seine erfolgreiche Kurzgeschichte The Most Dangerous Game," die mehrfach als Filmvorlage diente. Nicht nur, dass Ulf Kreth dieses Werk erstmalig ins Deutsche ubersetzt hat, er hat es ebenso in Das grausamste Spiel" eigenen Vorstellungen entsprechend adaptiert. Wie im Original, so strandet auch in seiner Neubearbeitung der Amerikaner Rainsford auf einer Karibikinsel, die einem reichen und exzentrischen Russen, General Zaroff, gehort. Zaroff ist wie sein unerwarteter Gast leidenschaftlicher Jager und hat auf der Insel ein Schloss errichten lassen. Das dient ihm als Ausgangspunkt fur die grosste Herausforderung, die er sich als Jager wunschen kann: der Jagd auf Menschen. Als Rainsford das Angebot des Generals ablehnt, gemeinsam mit diesem zu jagen, wird er plotzlich selbst zur begehrten Beute des Russen. Ein Spiel um Leben und Tod beginnt