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

PREACHER Season 4

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PREACHER Season 4 again failed to match the humorous whimsy and wonder of its first season, but with a hard stop to the series at the end of the fourth, it didn’t meander but instead came to a strongly coherent and powerful finish, complete with a bittersweet denouement.

LINCOLN (2012)

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Directed by Steven Spielberg but without the usual heavy-handedness, and based on the book TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, LINCOLN (2012) is an amazing film about the final four months of the iconic president’s life, emphasizing his efforts to both end the Civil War while getting the thirteenth amendment passed in the House of Representatives. With a star-studded cast led by the great Daniel Day-Lewis, who shreds every scene while embodying the wit, strength, and humanity of Lincoln, this is an amazing film that treats its audience as intelligent adults and presents an insider look at how the institution of slavery legally ended in America for all time.

JOKER (2019)

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JOKER (2019) was for me one of those movies I had to take some time to process before I figured out what I thought of it. After Heath Ledger’s performance in THE DARK KNIGHT, I’d thought there wasn’t any portrayal of the character that could compete, but I was wrong. Drawing from THE KILLING JOKE graphic novel along with films like THE KING OF COMEDY and TAXI DRIVER, JOKER presents the grittiest superhero film yet, a thoroughly brutal character study of the creation of a villain. Overall, I liked it a lot, though the process felt like hard work. And while I love superhero films that take a gritty, more realistic approach such as LOGAN, I wished Joker had been a little more grand than self-aggrandizing. Let me explain…

What a Real Civil War Might Look Like in America

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Recent events have prompted more than one reader to tell me my dystopian novel Our War (Orbit, August 2019), about a second American civil war, is quickly becoming nonfiction. A 2018 Rasmussen poll found that nearly a third of Americans believed a civil war was likely to happen in the United States in the next five years. While I personally believe civil strife (defined as 25+ deaths per year) is far more likely than civil war (defined as 1,000+ combatant deaths per year), the scenario depicted in Our War, which is precipitated by the impeachment of a president who refuses to step down, is certainly plausible.

YESTERDAY (2019)

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YESTERDAY (2019) is a tough movie to judge, an odd mix of strength and weakness, which I overall liked for its charm and love letter to the Beatles, though it didn’t live up to its engaging premise and fell flat at the end with its typical Hollywood reach for convenience.