Author of sci-fi/fantasy, horror and adventure/thriller fiction

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.

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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Suffer the Children

A mysterious disease strikes down the world’s children before bringing them back with a bizarre need that might end the world. How far would you go for someone you love?

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The Alchemists

During the tumultuous Renaissance, two great men resume an old duel to determine which is superior, magic or science.

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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 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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Children of God

The survivors of a doomsday cult find their voice through poetry therapy, expressing why they joined the cult and how it all went wrong.

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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

"Gripping ... DiLouie carefully recreates our society and our military ... then proceeds to bring the horror, devastation and heroes we require.

FANGORIA MAGAZINE
on The Infection

Writers like King, Lansdale and DiLouie invite us to view America through a glass smeared with dirt, blood and the mist of our own primal fear.

AUTHOR PAUL MANNERING
on "The End of the Road"

WATERSHIP DOWN (2018)

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WATERSHIP DOWN (2018) is an animated BBC adaptation of the 1972 novel of the same name by Richard Adams (available on Netflix). I missed out on reading it when I was younger and was too young to watch the bloody 1978 cartoon adaptation, so this was my first introduction to the classic story. What a powerful story about leadership, friendship, loss, and home.

I AM A HERO (2015)

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Based on Kengo Hanazawa’s manga, the Japanese film I AM A HERO (2015) brings the zombie apocalypse full blast to Japan. Like TRAIN TO BUSAN, it shows what can be accomplished if you tell a story about people with zombies in it rather than the other way around.

YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER (2018)

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A bit meta, a bit comedy, and a bit gory slasher fun, YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER (2009) turns the traditional “slaughter at Camp X” scenario on its head by making the slasher the protagonist. The result is a solid B horror movie, a one-trick pony that sustains itself for the full run time without becoming boring.

VALHALLA RISING (2009)

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VALHALLA RISING (2009) is strange, violent, tedious, seriously moody, and strangely compelling. With its long takes, desolate vistas, lack of dialogue, puzzling ending, and haunting score, it’s a powerful movie that I imagine is either a solid hit or miss with viewers, not the kind of film you walk away from saying, “Yeah, it was okay.”

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018)

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Written and directed by Boots Riley, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (2018) is one of those subversive critiques of capitalism that makes you wonder how it got funded. In the vein of classic satires like IDIOCRACY and NETWORK, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is surreal and weirdly titillating but with a very powerful, biting message. It’s funny, but so funny (and slyly accurate) it makes you kind of sad.