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.

Armor Series

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

Learn more

Our War

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

Learn more

One of Us

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

Learn more

Crash Dive Series

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

Learn more

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?

Learn more

The Alchemists

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

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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.

Learn more

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

THE LAST KINGDOM Series by Bernard Cornwell

By Leave a Comment

After watching the first four seasons of THE LAST KINGDOM (Netflix) and still hungry for Saxon glory, I decided to check out the books on which they’re based. This is THE LAST KINGDOM (SAXON, WARRIOR) CHRONICLES by Bernard Cornwell, one of the most prolific and successful military fiction writers. I instantly fell in love with the voice, characters, history, and action, and found it to a fantastic companion to the TV series, which dramatically simplifies the narrative.

Booklist Reviews THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK

By Leave a Comment

“An emotionally devastating, ultimately hopeful horror story about trauma, the power of love, and the unexplainable forces that surround us,” writes Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association, in its review of THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK, coming from Redhook (Hachette) in November 2020.

TREAD (2020)

By Leave a Comment

TREAD (2020, streaming on Netflix) is a taut and tense documentary about Marvin John Heemeyer’s incredible rampage in an armored bulldozer that wrecked a small Colorado town in 2004. The documentary rolls out in an interesting way, presenting Heemeyer’s side of the story–much of it through audiotape recordings he made prior to his rampage–before rolling out additional testimony pointing to him being delusional and quite possibly a sociopath, making the truth as complicated and individual as it probably is. It’s pretty well done, and in the end, it’s not the feel-good, average-bluecollar-guy-pushed-too-far-and-fights-city-hall tale we want it to be, but rather a tragic and sad story about a man hitting the breaking point.

MIDWAY (2019)

By 2 Comments

MIDWAY (2019, streaming on Google Play) is military historical actioner focusing on the experience of bomber pilots in WW2 from the Pearl Harbor attack to the Battle of Midway, considered a major turning point in the war. As my next WW2 series is about carrier aviators fighting in the Pacific, I considered this essential viewing. The film largely got panned by critics, so I expected it to be lifeless, but while the characters are pretty weak, the action and history is pretty darn good, and overall I’d give it a B.