When Big Game Hunter, Sanger Rainsford, falls overboard and swims to an island with a bad reputation,

the hunter quickly becomes the hunted.

Richard Connell, today on the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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Big game safaris and expeditions were fashionable among the wealthy in the 1920s, and this story has had several media appearances, including an audio drama in the CBS Radio Suspense series featuring Orson Wells in 1943, and an R. K.O. film featuring Fay Ray in

1932. Both are worth checking out.

And now, the most dangerous game by Richard Connell.

Off there to the right somewhere is a large island, said Whitney. It's rather a mystery.

What island is it? Rainsford asked.

The old charts call it ship trap island.

Whitney replied.

A suggestive name, isn't it?

Sailors have a curious dread of the place.

I don't know why some superstition. Can't see it, remarked

Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it

pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

You've good eyes, said Whitney with a laugh.

And I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at 400 yards but even you can't see

four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night.

Not four yards, admitted Rainsford.

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