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The Cage (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #22)
by
Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)
For the employees of Big Bill’s Home Electronics, it’s just the end of another long workday—until a gunman bursts into the store and begins shooting. Now, with some of their co-workers dead, the hostages are disappearing one-by-one, and if they want to survive the night, they’ll have to escape… THE CAGE.
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Paperback, 112 pages
Published
March 21st 2012
by Deadite Press
(first published July 27th 2010)
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Not for me. A bunch of guys were pretty much held hostage in the back of an electronics store inside a cage where items are held. We don't know what the man holding them hostage wants, but the guys get tidbits of info. While they were being held hostage the fellas turned into a bunch of chatty Cathy's which is a pet peeve of mine. Too much talky. It really took away from the supposed tension in the story: who is he?, what does he want?, oh, my god, we're gonna die. The ending? Meh.
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Nov 14, 2012
Paulo "paper books always" Carvalho
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
horror,
novella-short-story
Brian Keene is one of my favourite writers. His Mythos is also one that I know more of. Most of his stories are interconneted in some point. Some reference or character.
The title story "The Cage" is one of the weakest stories by him, in my humble opinion by one of the masters of horrors. I didn't felt connected with the characters (neither the captor and the captives).
This story is connected with the Labyrinth Mythos (the Shtar, on the Thirteen) and the reference to the television show "Castaway...more
The title story "The Cage" is one of the weakest stories by him, in my humble opinion by one of the masters of horrors. I didn't felt connected with the characters (neither the captor and the captives).
This story is connected with the Labyrinth Mythos (the Shtar, on the Thirteen) and the reference to the television show "Castaway...more
I've just recently become a fan of Brian Keene. Yes, indeed I have been living under that proverbial rock, though I have found many other compatriots under there who have not had the chance to enjoy many of the limited editions out there that thankfully are being reprinting. I may still be under there feeding on worms and dry dirt, but Deadite came around and with a whack of awesome cover art by Alan M. Clark, I started buying them up.
Boy oh boy was I in for a treat! Being a long time Laymon fan...more
Boy oh boy was I in for a treat! Being a long time Laymon fan...more
For fans of Brian Keene this is likely to be one of those books you've been waiting a while for. Before Deadite Press released this edition it had only been released in a limited edition hardback and on a collection called Conspiracy of One - both of which are out of print and only available on the likes of e-bay for larger sums of money.[return][return]As the book description says it follows a group of electronic store employees who are locked in a storage cage in the warehouse whilst a madman...more
For those who haven't yet read Brian Keene's work, all I can say is...WTF is WRONG with you! But seriously, though, Keene is one of the most consistently great horror authors out there, and thanks to Deadite for teaming up and releasing several novels and novellas, all of them also available in digital. The Cage is a fast, gut-wrenching read about employees of Big Bill's Home Electronics who are taken hostage one night at closing by a gun-wielding "man in black." After murdering one employee and...more
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I won a copy of this book from Kevin Lucia, and finally got around to reading it just as it's been re-released by another publisher.
In the back of an independent electronics store, Big Bill's Home Electronics, there is a cage. A lot of these stores have a cage, I guess, where they keep the little expensive items like iPhones and cameras and tablets and such. It ain't much, but the cage is apparently big enough to hold six employees prisoner with a psychopath armed to the teeth waltzes into the s...more
In the back of an independent electronics store, Big Bill's Home Electronics, there is a cage. A lot of these stores have a cage, I guess, where they keep the little expensive items like iPhones and cameras and tablets and such. It ain't much, but the cage is apparently big enough to hold six employees prisoner with a psychopath armed to the teeth waltzes into the s...more
Well, it appears that Brian Keene is dancing with the stars, five of them to be exact. Yes, the Cage is awesome and yes, that first sentence was embarrassingly lame.
Anyway, Keene's novels tend to fall into two categories: amazing or terrible. Thankfully, there are a hell of a lot more amazing ones than terrible and The Cage falls
into the former group. Like so many other great Keene reads, The Cage has a great plot. This is what makes so many of Keene's books great. His writing style is nothing...more
Anyway, Keene's novels tend to fall into two categories: amazing or terrible. Thankfully, there are a hell of a lot more amazing ones than terrible and The Cage falls
into the former group. Like so many other great Keene reads, The Cage has a great plot. This is what makes so many of Keene's books great. His writing style is nothing...more
THE CAGE by Brian Keene is the third short story collection by the author under his new publisher, Deadite Press. It is my unfortunate opinion that this collection is the weakest of the three. What this collection best serves as is an early history lesson of Keene's writing.
The title story has some basis in Keene's non-writer jobs (namely an electronics store). While not a strong story it is classic Keene in turning aspects of his everyday life into a horror story. Other stories in the collectio...more
The title story has some basis in Keene's non-writer jobs (namely an electronics store). While not a strong story it is classic Keene in turning aspects of his everyday life into a horror story. Other stories in the collectio...more
Brian Keene never disappoints. As a long term fan, I keep expecting him to, but he hasn’t. The Cage thickens mythos that is the rich overlapping story arc that revolves around “The Thirteen”. The story starts as abruptly as a shotgun robbery of an electronics store. No wait, it does start out abruptly, with a shotgun robbery of an electronics store. The employees are all locked in the warehouse storage fence (the cage), and the horror begins. Brian Keene has grown very much as a writer, putting...more
This was a pretty good novella which follows Keene's regular formula. It tells the story of a group of employees at a electronics shop who when closing have a psychopath enter and after killing a few of the employees order the rest into the warehouse and locks them up in a cage that is used for smaller expensive electronics. What transpires is the thoughts and fears of the remaining employees as they watch each of the remaining co-workers get carted out of the cage one-by-one but with no knowled...more
Oct 21, 2010
Eric
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Keene fans, fans of intelligent horror
Shelves:
limited-edition
An outstanding novella from Brian Keene, available in limited edition from Cemetery Dance as part of its Novella Series. It's closing time at the consumer electronics store, when the Man in Black appears. He's got a plan. And a big ol' gun. Now, Jeff and what's left of his co-workers are locked in the Cage in the back, trying to figure out what's going on, and how they can avoid being the next to die. A quick, excellent read, more psycho-thriller than horror despite the author and publisher. Ord...more
I am a huge fan of Brian Keene. I read everything he writes and waited for this one to be available in e-book. Plot-wise, a stranger enters a high end electronics shop and takes the workers hostage, locking them in "the cage" in the warehouse. Taking them out one by one and leading each one to an undisclosed fate, the stranger leaves the panic-stricken remainders to wonder what will happen to them when they are chosen. Tense. Very realistic. Keene is a master of portraying people under stress. I...more
I only started reading Brian Keene’s work just as his relationship with Dorchester dissolved. What I read was what my brother had and a couple books my wife bought for me over the internet. A little while back he started a relationship with Deadite Press, and for fans like me this is exactly what we needed. They have been reprinting not only Brian’s mass market novels but stories that had originally only appeared in rare limited editions. So now I and so many others can easily get our hands on b...more
I haven't read the other stories in the book yet, but The Cage was ok. Keene did a good job of building up the suspense, but the ending didn't really do it for me. He put enough life into these characters that got very invested in the story and I was really hoping for everything to pay off in the end, but it was just a little too ridiculous. If you want to start off reading his writing with something short, I suggest the much better Jack's Magic Beans.
This is the first Brian Keene story I've read, so i decided to start with something shorter. While the story's climax is rather weak (a common trait of most shorter horror fiction), Keene manages to create a tense and compelling situation populated by well developed and interesting characters. The guy clearly has some talent, and while this book is nothing special, it's make me want to seek out some of his other works.
This short story grabbed me from the get-go. I was very intrigued by the bad man entering the store and his statements. As each of the workers disappeared my need to know what was happening heightened. And then the story ended. Once I think I knew what was going on it was done. It’s a little pricey for the time it took to read too.
3.5. Great use of suspense. Characters easy to identify with (large number to keep track of for a novella, but execution...uhh...made it easier). Writing/dialog was crisp. Ending was vague, kinda dumb, a let-down. Still, not a bad way to spend an hour or two.
Some authors I know would have tried to make this book into a 600 page novel. As it is, Brian Keene kept it short and to the point, making it a very nice read.
I read The Cage in hardback back in Jan '11. This is for the short story "Lest Ye Become" the short to contained in the Deadite Press paperback.
loved this book. one the snort stories was about cysts, which was excellent.
Short and sweet and very scary ... like your first seduction
It was not good at all
This is a nice short collection of four stories with a good Alan Clark cover; the title story is one of Keene's best.
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BRIAN KEENE is the author of over twenty-five books, including Darkness on the Edge of Town, Take The Long Way Home, Urban Gothic, Castaways, Kill Whitey, Dark Hollow, Dead Sea, and The Rising. He’s also written comic books such as The Last Zombie, Doom Patrol and Dead of Night: Devil Slayer. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French and Taiwanese.
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