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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hmm, for short stories, it's probably "The Most Dangerous Game."

Plot with massive spoilers

MC is a big game hunter traveling by boat to the Amazon to hunt jaguar. He is warned by locals about a local island called Ship-Trap island. He falls overboard and swims to Ship-Trap island, where there's a big mansion inhabited by General Zaroff, another big game hunter. Zaroff explains that he got bored of hunting animals and set up the island to attract ships, and when a ship wrecks on the island, he gives the sailors a knife and a head start, and if they can survive 3 days, they are set free. Zaroff then sets off to hunt them with a small caliber pistol.

Plot happens, and at the end the MC makes it look like he committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. Zaroff returns home, and the MC is waiting for him in his bedroom. Zaroff congratulates him, but the MC says the hunt isn't over, and we see the MC sleeping in Zaroffs bed at the end of the story.

The themes are pretty disturbing if you stop to think about it, and even if you don't, there's a fair amount of violence.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah. Loved this short story.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I hadn't been really into Tom Clancy novels, it probably would've scarred me for life. But I was already reading about terrorists trying to mass-genocide most of the planet (Rainbow Six) and assassins shooting people in the eyes at near-point blank (forget the specific book), so a little gore didn't phase me.

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I remember being really into Ton Clancy novels around that time too.