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Spooky Books for the Spooky Season

Oct 28, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Mason Coile |Ivy Fairbanks |Mary Shelley

Get ready to be haunted by the creepiest new offerings and classics of Halloween-inspired literature. Here are a cauldron’s worth of books that embrace the pumpkin spice of the season and keep you on the chilliest edge of your seat!NEW ADULT“Nether Station”By Kevin J. AndersonBlackstone Publishing, $27.99Calling all H.P. Lovecraft fans! If supernatural horror fiction screams out to you, then meet astrophysicist Cammie Skoura.
AI run amok and a lesbian space traveller highlight new sci-fi novels

Oct 13, 2024 | thespec.com | Alex Good |Mason Coile |Pasha Malla |Richard Powers

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $24, 224 pages“William” is a short, sharp shock of a book that tells a quick techno-horror tale about a smart house gone bad and AI run amok. When married engineers Henry and Lily invite another couple over for brunch, on Halloween of all days, we might not be expecting a demonic parody of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but that’s what’s on the menu.
AI run amok and a lesbian space traveller highlight new sci-fi novels

Oct 13, 2024 | insideottawavalley.com | Alex Good |Mason Coile |Pasha Malla |Richard Powers

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $24, 224 pages“William” is a short, sharp shock of a book that tells a quick techno-horror tale about a smart house gone bad and AI run amok. When married engineers Henry and Lily invite another couple over for brunch, on Halloween of all days, we might not be expecting a demonic parody of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but that’s what’s on the menu.
William | Bookreporter.com

Sep 21, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Mason Coile

I was excited to read WILLIAM for two reasons. First, I am fascinated by AI and its impact on our lives. Secondly, the book is written by Mason Coile, a pseudonym for International Thiller Writers Award winner Andrew Pyper, who always delivers. The result is a novel packed with suspense, creepy chills and more than a few surprises, which toes the line between top-notch science fiction and horror.
Review: What's that thing in the attic? Oh, just an AI robot that will probably take over your life.

Sep 18, 2024 | arcamax.com | Mason Coile |Pete Tamburro |Holiday Mathis |Jase Graves

Henry wakes with a jolt on Halloween morning in “William,” Mason Coile’s “debut” (it’s Canadian writer Andrew Pyper’s first book under that pen name). “You were nightmaring,” his pregnant wife, Lily, says from a chair next to his bed. “You woke up like I fired a gun next to your ear.”“Did you?” he asks. Henry and Lily are engineers. He specializes in robotics, she in computers. He’s agoraphobic and she is not.
Terrifying Literary Horror Novels to Sink Your Fangs Into (Exclusive)

Sep 10, 2024 | people.com | Mason Coile

A few of our favorite literary horror novels. As a kid, I read widely, without anyone telling me what genres were better (or more age-appropriate) than others. To this day, I love books that are hard to categorize, particularly ones that combine excellent writing with thrilling mysteries, twists and scares.
Mason Coile's novel 'William' is Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' but with Artificial Intelligence

Sep 3, 2024 | startribune.com | Maren Longbella |Mason Coile

Henry wakes with a jolt on Halloween morning in “William,” Mason Coile’s “debut” (it’s Canadian writer Andrew Pyper’s first book under that pen name). “You were nightmaring,” his pregnant wife, Lily, says from a chair next to his bed. “You woke up like I fired a gun next to your ear.”Henry and Lily are engineers. He specializes in robotics, she in computers. He’s agoraphobic and she is not.