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.

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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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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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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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

SAND CASTLE (2017)

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Written by Chris Roessner based on his experiences as a machine gunner in the Sunni Triangle in Iraq, SAND CASTLE is pretty conventional as far as movies about modern war go, but its ring of authenticity and theme of futility in counterinsurgency overcomes this objection to offer a worthwhile experience. Critics and audiences didn’t seem to care for it a whole lot, but I liked it quite a bit. Though it’s no OUTPOST, it’s as enjoyable as similar efforts like HYENA ROAD.

ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME (2021)

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ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME (2021) takes a fundamental human trait–feeling rejected by a social group, resulting in paranoia these people actually despise you–and ramps it up into a black comedy. Overall, I liked it, and I was surprised at how much they wrung out of the premise to sustain it.

ICEFIELDS by Thomas Wharton

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Thomas Wharton’s CanLit classic ICEFIELDS recently came back to print with a new edition, leading to me discovering it for the first time. It’s quite beautiful, though more a story of a glacier located in Alberta and the park that forms around it than the thin, unrealized plot it presents. Overall, I enjoyed it, but this book is not for everyone.

TATTOO ZOO by Paul Avallone

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Written by Paul Avallone, a veteran who spent more than three years in the Afghanistan War as a Green Beret and then as a civilian embedded journalist, TATTOO ZOO is one of the best if not the best war novel of the War on Terror era.

OUTER RANGE

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Amazon Prime’s OUTER RANGE, a New West drama with sci-fi elements, promised a new favorite show for me, and at first it delivers, only it quickly evolves into a sprawling soap opera that alternates between taking itself too seriously and not seriously at all.