"The Most Dangerous Island" is a story of two hunters, both of very different backgrounds, whose common interests' and unexpected fate would bring the couple together. Rainsford is a famous hunter from New York who is traveling to the Amazon. As they pass an island a friend on board tells him, "The old charts call it "Ship-Trap Island." Sailors have a curious dread of the place."

During a sleepless, night Rainsford went to smoke a pipe when he suddenly heard gun fire in the distance. As he climbs upon the rail of the yacht to peruse through the darkness for the origin of the shots, he fell into the blood-warm water of the Caribbean. After the yacht had continued into the distance, Rainsford began his swim toward the origin of the gun shots that he had previously heard.

The next day, on the island, he came upon lights...