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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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

"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

TANKERS (2018)

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Inspired by true events, TANKERS (2018) is a Russian movie about the crew of a KV-1 tank during 1942, at the darkest point in the German invasion. Like the similar American film FURY, which was about a Sherman Easy Eight tank, TANKERS takes plenty of liberties with tank combat but overall delivers the grit, realism, and tension of a great war movie.

WATCHMEN Series (2019)

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HBO’s explosive WATCHMEN series (2019) is an amazing chronological and thematic continuation of Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel, a bizarre mishmash of odd events and odder characters that all fit together perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle to expose the complete picture. I fell in love with its audacity, larger than life characters, action, mundane weirdness, and commentary on masked heroes.

THE ENGINES OF SACRIFICE by James Chambers

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“Lovecraftian” is a mythos that feels overly familiar to me and therefore has to be done really well for me to fall under its spell. By “done really well,” I mean take Lovecraft and portray it in a contemporary way that conveys the feelings of mystery, dread, and horror, without sounding hackneyed or borrowed. TRUE DETECTIVE played with the Yellow King mythos in just such a way. A more direct and just as powerful example is THE ENGINES OF SACRIFICE by James Chambers.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019)

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Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) is charming and entertaining as it sends a love letter to late 60s Hollywood and then reinvents a small slice of history. I enjoyed it, though the last act, where everything has been headed and comes together on one fateful night, appears grafted on, resulting in a film that feels both sprawling and disjointed.