The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

"OFF THERE to the right-- someplace-- is a huge island," claimed Whitney." It's instead a secret--". " What island is it?" Rainsford asked. " The old graphes call it 'Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney responded." A symptomatic name, right? Seafarers have an interested fear of the location. I aren't sure why. Some superstitious notion--". " Can't see it," said Rainsford, attempting to peer via the dank exotic evening that was apparent as it pushed its thick cozy blackness in after the luxury yacht. " You've great eyes," stated Whitney, with a laugh," as well as I've seen you select off a moose relocating the brownish autumn shrub at 4 hundred lawns, however also you cannot see 4 miles approximately via a moonless Caribbean evening.". " Nor 4 lawns," confessed Rainsford. "Ugh! It's like damp black velour.". " It will certainly be li...