Both short stories have similar settings and involve two enemies who struggle to survive amidst the dangerous natural environments and who are skilled hunters. While the setting of "The Most Dangerous Game" takes place on Ship-Trap Island and the short story "The Interlopers" takes place on a narrow strip of precipitous woodland, both settings dramatically impact the plot of both stories. In "The Most Dangerous Game," Rainsford is forced to traverse and survive on the dangerous tropical island, as well as in the rough sea, while both Georg and Ulrich von Gradwitz struggle against the natural elements of the forest on a wintry night. In both short stories, the main characters are enemies and compete against each other. Rainsford is General Zaroff's enemy and the two characters struggle against each other in the most dangerous game. Similarly, Georg and Ulrich von Gradwitz are enemies and hope to kill each other at the beginning of the story. In both stories, each character's main goal is to kill his enemy. The main characters in both short stories are also skilled hunters.

Great question, as both of these stories have very strong similarities but also some big differences too. Clearly the similarities are that both stories contain two enemies that are engaged in a mortal struggle against each other. Both of these struggles take place in a natural environment as both enemies seek to kill their opponent, and thus both stories represent a desperate struggle to survive and to outlive the other.

However, it is clear that there are also significant differences. In "The Interlopers," for example, the two enemies become friends because of the desperate situation they find themselves in and heal the breach between their two households, which does not occur in "The Most Dangerous Game." Likewise, "The Interlopers" ends with a piece of tragic, dark irony as instead of being rescued from the tree they are trapped by, a pack of wolves comes and kills them. Tragically, instead of both surviving to live in peace, or even one surviving having killed the other, as in "The Most Dangerous Game," both die terribly together.