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MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST Coming July 1, 2025

June 10, 2025 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST releases July 1, 2025 from Hachette in trade paperback, all popular eBook formats, and a multi-narrator audiobook in all bookstores, libraries, and online retailers!

You can pre-order it here and here.

One of “12 Must-Read Horror Books of 2025” —Novel Suspects

“Outré even by the standards of supernatural horror fiction, DiLouie’s ostentatious, 1990s-set latest proposes that the Antichrist is the front man for a Pennsylvania art band and that the apocalypse he threatens can only be averted through the intervention of a punk pop group headed by his ex-girlfriend… DiLouie seeds the narrative with enough pop theology to undergird its tongue-in-cheek excesses, which include a cabal of rogue clergy wielding rocket launchers and a Universal Priest stage performance that unfolds like a mash-up of The Omen and This Is Spinal Tap. It’s a wild ride.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“A tale of love, self-discovery, and following your dreams, all told through the twisted lens of a rockumentary about Armageddon. Craig DiLouie brings his sharp mix of heart and horror to the end of the world with this clever story about rock n’ roll, relationships, and destiny.” —NYT bestselling author Peter Clines

“One hell of a performance! With My Ex, the AntiChrist, Craig DiLouie once again proves he is a master of the epistolary genre. Immersive, compelling, and chillingly plausible. It’s as if you were there. Resounding.” —Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Awards-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories

“The ultimate battle draped in rock and roll… DiLouie’s latest novel is an exciting glimpse into music history and the enigmatic 2000s with a timeless tale about the end of the world and love, of all things, as its connective tissue. What a wild ride.” —L. Marie Wood, author of The Realm Trilogy and The Promise Keeper

“Thrumming with energy and tension, My Ex, The Antichrist is a horror-filled love letter to music and how it can save our souls.” —Kaaron Warren, author of The Underhistory

“DiLouie assuredly weaves a punk band’s rites of passage with the dark arts, crafting an occult love story from burnt-out memories and scavenged, sacred hearts.” —Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold and The Handyman Method

“Craig DiLouie is the sly officiant presiding over this marriage of heady theology and anthemic punk rock. This book weaves age-old philosophical conundrums into a sensitive, aching, and raw portrait of a band’s rags-to-riches tale. With its lively oral history format, reading My Ex, The Antichrist is like letting Behind the Music take you to hell and back.” – Andy Marino, author of The Swarm

“A diabolical twist on rock and roll saviors, My Ex, The Antichrist conjures a horrifying riff on the classic question: Can rock and roll really save your soul? Craig DiLouie spins a lush account of late 90s rock, a talented but struggling band, and a harrowing brush with the divine conflict between good and evil into an atomic-powered concept album of a novel that shreds the literary walls. Thoughtful, heartbreaking, and unsettling, My Ex, The Antichrist is a rock and roll parable for our times.” —James Chambers, Bram Stoker Award and Scribe Award-winning author of On the Night Border and Three Chords of Chaos

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Cover Reveal for MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST

September 7, 2024 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Coming June 2025 from Hachette Book Group’s new “Run For It” imprint: MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST.

The pitch: When a rock musician learns her ex-boyfriend is the Biblical Antichrist, she must find a way to stop him before he grows powerful enough to end the world. DAISY JONES AND THE SIX meets THE OMEN in this novel about music, love, free will, and the apocalypse …

The description: At the end of 1999, The Shivers fought Universal Priest in the Armageddon Battle of the Bands in Bethlehem, PA. What started the riot that claimed the lives of nine teens and left dozens more battered and bruised?

In 2010, The Shivers’ frontwoman Lily Lawless walked into a police station to confess to murder. Why did she do it, and why did she wait ten years to confess?

The punk band broke up after Lily’s arrest, its members refusing to talk to the press. What secrets were they protecting?

And who, really, was Drake Morgan, one-time frontman for The Shivers who went on to form the dystopian rock band Universal Priest?

In this oral history, the members of The Shivers finally tell all about how a rock band that inspired a generation might have saved the world.

Coming in 2025!

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My Three-Book Horror Deal with Orbit

October 26, 2023 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

I am very happy today to announce that I have signed a deal with Orbit, Hachette’s speculative fiction imprint, for three horror novels to be published between 2025 and 2027.

The first is MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST: “When a rock musician learns her ex-boyfriend is the Biblical Antichrist, she must find a way to stop him before he grows powerful enough to control the world. DAISY JONES AND THE SIX meets THE OMEN in this novel about free will, music, and the apocalypse.”

This novel will follow HOW TO MAKE A HORROR MOVIE AND SURVIVE, on a previous deal with Hachette to publish in June 2024: “A slasher film director wants to make a horror movie using a cursed camera that kills anyone he cares about. The scream queen he loves wants to survive the night. FINAL DESTINATION meets Netflix’s BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR in this story about Hollywood, the eighties slasher era, and why we love horror movies.”

The other two in the three-book deal will be announced later. This will make eight novels I’ve done with Hachette, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to work again with my awesome editor and one of the largest and highest-quality publishers of fiction in the U.S.

Thank you for reading my work, which literally makes all this possible. Stay tuned for these upcoming releases!

Filed Under: Apocalyptic, APOCALYPTIC/HORROR, Books, Craig at Work, CRAIG'S WORK, MEDIA YOU MIGHT LIKE, My Ex, The Antichrist, WRITING LIFE

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