This week we bring you “The Most Dangerous Game” or “The Hounds of Zaroff” by Richard Connell. This story inspired the movie with Joel McCray, and was his most popular work. There is a new film based on this story releasing this week. It’s called “The Hunt” with Hilary Swank. It looks interesting, but the subtleties and nuances that make this story great are lost in a 21st century film. He wrote many screenplays during his life, but he wrote over 300 short stories.
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This story is by Frank Stockton. Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known for his allegorical fairy tales for all ages. One...
Here are two stories by Virginia Woolf: “An Unwritten Novel” and “The Mark on the Wall”. Virginia Woolf is a ‘stream of consciousness’ writer....