Very happy to announce that Gynisis Productions, an independent production company, has optioned THE CHILDREN OF RED PEAK for potential film adaptation.
This popular psychological horror novel is about a group of children who grew up in and survive a doomsday cult that commits mass suicide. Years later, they gather to come to terms with their trauma and try to piece together what really happened that final night…
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!
When a rock musician learns her ex is the Biblical Antichrist, she must find a way to stop him before he grows powerful enough to end the world. MTV’s Behind the Music meets The Omen in this novel about music, free will, and the apocalypse.
“It’s a familiar story: the starry rise and tragic fall of a rock band. This is not that story. This is one you haven’t heard—a tale of divine prophecy and a breakup. Oh, and the apocalypse…”
1999: At the Armageddon Battle of the Bands, the Shivers fought Universal Priest in an epic musical showdown. What started the shocking riot that claimed the lives of nine teens?
2010: At the height of stardom, 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?
2011: The band broke up after Lily’s arrest, its members refusing to talk to the press. What secrets were they protecting?
NOW: In this oral history, Lily and the rest of the Shivers finally tell all about how a pop-punk band that inspired a generation might have saved the world.
Online, you can get it here and here.
What early reviewers are saying:
“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
“I am a massive DiLouie fan and wait patiently for every new release. And when My Ex, The Antichrist showed up in my mail box, I was giddy. And as a kid that grew up listening to pop-punk and devoured musician biographies under my high school desk–this was everything I needed … I just loved everything about this book.” -Horror Bound
“Craig DiLouie uses music as a framework in this dangerous, outrageous good versus evil headbanger of a story… This is a fun one, folks, don’t miss it!” -Books, Bones & Buffy
“My Ex, the Antichrist is a rollercoaster of emotions, with moments of creepiness, heartfelt sincerity, and outright goofiness. DiLouie balances these shifts with ease, hitting a variety of emotional notes that make the experience deeply enjoyable.” -Capes & Tights
“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
I recently had the opportunity to join the Edward Gryftkin Podcast to talk about my new release, MY EX, THE ANTICHRIST. It was a fun chat! Check it out here:
Nathan Ballingrud’s WOUNDS is a collection of short stories and a novella about ordinary people connecting with the border of Hell. Packed with ideas, it blew my mind and warmed up this reader’s jaded horror heart.
Yes, I’ve been jaded lately as a reader, with too many books bought only to be DNF’d. (That’s a statement on me, not the general state of fiction.) So, when I was recommended Nathan Ballingrud’s WOUNDS, I was surprised to very quickly fall in love with Ballingrud’s fearless imagination, big ideas, and tantalizing and surprising mythology of Hell.
In these stories, an order of monks lives at the border of Hell, working on the nether region’s Atlas. Strange creatures overrun a city and turn the dead into a musical instrument. A bartender discovers an underground ritual that summons angels. And more…
The writing is terrific–Ballingrud knows what he’s doing–but it’s the cascading ideas, one striking and surprising image after another often confronted through the lens of ordinary people as characters caught up in the horror, that really won me over. I felt like I could read a hundred of these stories just to keep learning a little more about Ballingrud’s mythology of Hell, which had a way of filling in some detail only to add even more mystery.
Highly recommended–even for jaded horror fans.
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
Castles in the Sky, my WWII novel set during the air war over Europe, is now available to read in Kindle eBook, trade paperback, and audiobook!
From every corner of America, they crossed the Atlantic to destroy the Nazi war machine on its own turf: the B-17 bomber crews flying bloody bombing missions over northern Europe. On March 6, 1944, General Doolittle launched a massive operation he believed would change the air war. The largest air armada the Eighth Army Air Force had ever launched. The first full-scale daylight bombing of Berlin, capital of the Third Reich.
This horrifying battle would become known by the men who survived it as Black Monday.
From the author of Hell’s Eden, Strike, and the bestselling Crash Dive and Armorseries, Castles in The Sky tells the story of one such Flying Fortress crew. It’s a story of courage and grit in the face of impossible odds and the search for meaning in the madness of war. The 250th mission of the Eighth Army Air Force and the last for Pop’s Flying Circus.
You can get it here. Thanks for reading!