Into the Gray: Rediscovering Richard Connell

You know Richard Connell, right? If you came of age in the days of high school and undergraduate textbooks, you were probably assigned his story “The Most Dangerous Game” in one of your English classes. If not, you have likely encountered one of the dozens of film, television, or radio adaptations that began with Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1932 classic starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. And if you have somehow missed those, you’ve possibly caught wind of the controversy surrounding the late...