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Craig DiLouie

Craig DiLouie

Craig DiLouie is an author of popular thriller, apocalyptic/horror, and sci-fi/fantasy fiction.

In hundreds of reviews, Craig’s novels have been praised for their strong characters, action, and gritty realism. Each book promises an exciting experience with people you’ll care about in a world that feels real.

These works have been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA.

At this site, you can find all of Craig’s major works, interviews, and hundreds of interesting blog posts. Be sure to sign up for Craig’s mailing list here so you can stay tuned on new releases.

  • Apocalyptic
  • Horror
  • Military Thriller
  • Sci-fi/Fantasy
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My Ex, The Antichrist

When a rock musician learns her ex-boyfriend is the Biblical Antichrist, she must find a way to stop him before he grows powerful enough to end the world.

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Hell’s Eden

The Marines called it Starvation Island. The Japanese called it the Island of Death. Experience the Guadalcanal campaign through the eyes of a Marine and his rifle squad.

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Castles in The Sky

On March 6, 1944, General Doolittle launched a massive operation he believed would change the air war–the first full-scale daylight bombing of Berlin, capital of the Third Reich. Many would not return…

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How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

A slasher film director wants to make a horror movie using a cursed camera that kills anyone he cares about. The scream queen he loves wants to survive the night.

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Q.R.F.: A Novel of the Iraq War

When an old comrade doing humanitarian work is captured by ISIS during the Iraqi civil war in 2016, an Iraq War veteran and others from his former unit leave their civilian lives to attempt a high-risk rescue in the most dangerous place on Earth.

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Djinn

A photojournalist travels to Afghanistan to investigate what happened to her missing father, only to find herself fighting the ancient evil he unleashed.

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Episode Thirteen

In this story of suspense, a ghost-hunting reality TV team explores an infamously haunted house and discovers a dark and terrifying world beyond our own.

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Strike

A carrier dive-bomber pilot helps turn the tide of the Pacific conflict during WW2 in this high-speed, action-packed war novel.

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The Final Cut

In the third and last book in the classic INFECTION series, all must decide how far they’ll go to survive and what they’ll give up to save humanity.

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Aviator Series

The war memoirs of a modern carrier fighter pilot.

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The Children of Red Peak

The survivors of a doomsday cult’s horrific last days reunite to confront their past and the entity that appeared on the final night.

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Armor Series

A searing portrayal of tank combat, following a Sherman tank crew fighting the Axis from North Africa to Berlin.

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Our War

A brother and sister become child soldiers fighting on opposite sides of a second American civil war.

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One of Us

When a disease produces a generation of monsters, these children must somehow fit in–or fight for what’s theirs.

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Crash Dive Series

In this riveting adventure series, Charlie Harrison goes to war in the submarines against the Japanese Navy during WWII.

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The Infection War

The first two books in Craig DiLouie’s classic apocalyptic series, newly revised and published in an omnibus paperback edition for bookstores.

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The Infection

In this classic in the apocalyptic/zombie genre, five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.

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The Killing Floor

In this sequel to The Infection, the survivor of a slaughter discovers he’s not just immune, but has the power to save the world…or end it.

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Tooth and Nail

In this classic zombie story that launched the military zombie subgenre, a company of soldiers fights to maintain in New York during an outbreak of a bizarre disease that turns people into rabid maniacs.

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The Retreat Series

In this series, an infantry battalion must fight its way across an apocalyptic America to reach Florida, the last bastion of government.

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The Front Series

In this series set in WW2, the paratroopers of three nations must work together to stop a zombie plague.

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The Great Planet Robbery

Two Marines, weary after years of fighting for the Federation, have found a way to get mightily rich. They will rob an entire planet.

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The End of the Road

In this grotesque short story, five college friends cross America to find themselves. They won’t like what they find.

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With this chilling story of cult abuse, DiLouie proves his mastery of the slow slide from psychological drama into supernatural horror… Horror readers will be hooked.”

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
on The Children of Red Peak

Part epic war story, part cautionary tale, OUR WAR is brutal, unflinching, and mesmerizing. DiLouie once again delivers an emotional body-slam of a book, one that’ll leave you shaken to your core.

AUTHOR PETER CLINES
on Our War

Frightening in its familiarity, ONE OF US is a tale of human monsters and monstrous humans--authentic, brutal, and inevitable.

AUTHOR DAVID WALTON
on One of Us

Tense enough so that you can almost hear the clock ticking.

AUTHOR JACK KETCHUM
on Suffer the Children

DiLouie flavors Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” with a dash of Joe Haldeman’s THE FOREVER WAR to create this rollicking military SF farce.

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
on The Great Planet Robbery

Adventure in the grand tradition: high stakes on the high seas, a gripping story that moves at frenetic pace without sacrificing character or detail.

AUTHOR JOHN DIXON
on the Crash Dive series

CASTLES IN THE SKY Releases!

April 28, 2025 By Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Happy to announce that Castles in the Sky, a WWII novel set during the air war over Europe, is now available to read in Kindle eBook, trade paperback, and audiobook!

CASTLES IN THE SKY Available for Pre-Order!

March 23, 2025 By Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Happy to announce that Castles in The Sky, a WWII novel set during the air war over Europe, is now available for pre-order!

ADOLESCENCE

March 23, 2025 By Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

In the British Netflix miniseries ADOLESCENCE, a 13-year-old boy is arrested for murder. In four separate but linked stories, we see how the arrest impacted everyone around him and piece together what happened and why. It is a brutal, arresting watch for pure human drama, and it blew me away.

HELL’S EDEN Releases Today!

February 24, 2025 By Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Today’s the day! Hell’s Eden is now available to read at Amazon!

AMERICAN PRIMEVAL

January 26, 2025 By Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Utterly violent, AMERICAN PRIMEVAL was a lot of fun to watch, though its relentless point about the savagery of the Old West becomes numbing at the end.

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