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Craig DiLouie Books in Order

Explore Craig DiLouie books in order, from horror to military fiction, with quick summaries, series guides, and helpful advice on where to start.

Last updated: July 8, 2026

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Paranoia

by Craig DiLouie

2001

A hospital orderly who knows conspiracy lore from his patients is pulled into a darker world when his long-lost brother reappears. After a presidential assassination, the line between delusion and reality starts to vanish.

The Great Planet Robbery

by Craig DiLouie

2008

Two aging Colonial Marines chase a map to a legendary world said to hold rivers of gold. Their last big score becomes a wild science fiction adventure with misfits, bounty hunters, and ancient secrets.

The Thin White Line

by Craig DiLouie

2008

Framed as a history of a near-future avian flu catastrophe, this novel follows how one outbreak unravels Canada and then the wider world. It reads like policy failure turned personal nightmare.

Tooth and Nail

by Craig DiLouie

2010

Soldiers on the front lines try to hold together as a savage outbreak tears through the world they were sworn to defend. The result is a blunt, bloody military apocalypse driven by fear and comradeship.

The Infection

by Craig DiLouie

2011

A virus drops millions into a three-day coma, then brings them back hungry to spread it further. A small band of survivors fights toward refuge as the infected evolve into something even worse.

The Killing Floor

by Craig DiLouie

2012

After a costly victory at the Ohio River, survivors race to understand whether Ray's blood might hold a cure. Military forces, militias, and the infected all converge on that possibility.

Pandemic

by Stephen Knight

2013

A new disease turns people into sadistic, laughing killers, and a battalion in Boston loses control of the city almost overnight. Their only hope is a long retreat through an America already falling apart.

The End of the Road

by Craig DiLouie

2013

A bleak, fast-moving thriller about people pushed to the edge as fear, violence, and hard choices close in from every side. DiLouie keeps the focus on human pressure as much as the danger ahead.

Slaughterhouse

by Stephen Knight

2014

Escaping Boston, Harry Lee leads the First Battalion toward Fort Drum through a country overrun by laughing killers. Ambushes, exhaustion, and the burden of command make every mile costly.

Suffer the Children

by Craig DiLouie

2014

One day every child dies. Three days later they return needing blood, and parents everywhere are forced to decide what they will sacrifice to keep their children alive.

Crash Dive

by Craig DiLouie

2015

In 1942, young Lieutenant Charlie Harrison boards a worn-out First World War submarine for a raid on Rabaul. The mission throws him into the cramped terror of Pacific undersea warfare fast.

Die Laughing

by Stephen Knight

2015

After weeks of retreat, Harry Lee's battalion reaches Philadelphia with thousands of refugees in tow. When Lee is arrested, Major Chris Walker has to hold the survivors together as the infected gather again.

Screaming Eagles

by Craig DiLouie

2015

Private Franklin Grillo and the 101st Airborne are already outgunned at Bastogne when the Germans start getting back up. The Battle of the Bulge becomes a frozen fight against an undead army.

Alamo

by Stephen Knight

2016

At a fortified government site, Harry Lee discovers the president has been infected while thousands of killers close in outside. A team is sent underground on a mission as simple and awful as it sounds.

Battle Stations

by Craig DiLouie

2016

Fresh from training, Charlie takes a posting under legendary submarine ace Gilbert Moreau. Deep inside enemy waters, he learns both how to fight and which lines war dares men to cross.

Silent Running

by Craig DiLouie

2016

Charlie Harrison joins the Sabertooth for a covert run to the Japanese-occupied Philippines, carrying supplies out and refugees home. When disaster strikes and a former Pearl Harbor carrier appears, he must choose between mission and opportunity.

Contact!

by Craig DiLouie

2017

Charlie Harrison returns to sea with fresh scars and bigger responsibilities as the submarine war grows deadlier. One contact on the horizon can mean triumph, disaster, or a decision that will haunt him.

Red Devils

by Craig DiLouie

2017

After the dead rise in the ruins of Bastogne, British officer Robert Wilkins uncovers clues to the zombie plague's source. The hunt leads toward occupied Poland and a mission that could decide Europe's future.

The Alchemists

by Craig DiLouie

2017

In 1529, rival masters of science and magic resume an old duel as Europe braces for Ottoman advance. Their clash grows into a Renaissance fantasy of invention, sorcery, and survival at Vienna.

Berlin or Bust

by Craig DiLouie

2018

With Europe collapsing under a zombie outbreak born from the Overman serum, German, American, and British paratroopers join forces. Their mission is to drop on Berlin and recover a pure sample before everything falls apart.

Crucible

by Stephen Knight

2018

The battalion's retreat narrows to one more brutal stand, where command frays and the infected keep coming. It is a grim late-series entry built on siege pressure, fatigue, and ugly choices.

Hara-Kiri

by Craig DiLouie

2018

Now commanding the Sandtiger, Charlie Harrison heads toward the Philippines with a malfunctioning boat and too few targets. Then a massive fleet appears, and the mission swerves into the largest naval battle of the war.

One of Us

by Craig DiLouie

2018

In 1984, Enoch Bryant lives in an orphanage for teens born with extreme mutations. When a body is found, the hatred simmering in the nearby town threatens to ignite into open violence.

Over the Hill

by Craig DiLouie

2018

In the final Crash Dive novel, Charlie Harrison faces the war's hardest reckoning yet. The action is fierce, but the deeper struggle is what years of combat have made of him.

Our War

by Craig DiLouie

2019

After an impeached president refuses to step down, America breaks into civil war. Ten-year-old Hannah Miller finds a makeshift family in a militia, and learns how quickly war can twist love, loyalty, and childhood.

Fortress Europe

by Craig DiLouie

2020

The crew survives Omaha Beach only to be trapped in Normandy's deadly bocage. Victory starts to look less certain as the campaign turns into a grinding fight for survival.

Reich's Fall

by Craig DiLouie

2020

In the final months of the war, the crew fights through the collapsing Third Reich toward the Elbe and beyond. Every mile home is paid for in exhaustion, loss, and one last round of hard choices.

The Battle of North Africa

by Craig DiLouie

2020

A green Sherman tank crew lands in North Africa expecting a hard but manageable fight. Combat with Vichy French and German forces teaches them fast how exposed, noisy, and unforgiving armored war really is.

The Bulge

by Craig DiLouie

2020

Worn down by years of campaigning, the tankers are thrown into Hitler's last great counteroffensive in the Ardennes. Winter, fuel shortages, and German armor make mere survival feel like a win.

The Children of Red Peak

by Craig DiLouie

2020

Years after escaping a cult beneath Red Peak mountain, three survivors reunite when another member dies. Facing what really happened that final night may be the only way to stop it from claiming them again.

The Fight for Sicily

by Craig DiLouie

2020

Veterans of North Africa roll into the invasion of Sicily under Corporal Anthony Russo. Between chaotic landings and clashes with elite German troops, the crew has to prove it can fight together.

The Aviator of the Sino-American War

by Craig DiLouie

2021

From a prison cell in Beijing, Navy pilot Jack Knapp recounts the Battle of Taiwan and the path that ended in a show trial. It is a future-war thriller built around air combat, loyalty, and the stories nations tell about war.

The Final Cut

by Craig DiLouie

2021

Months after Infection wrecks the country, survivors and scientists make a last stand at a besieged Army lab. Cure, weapon, or something worse, every option carries a brutal cost.

The Warfighter of the Second Korean War

by Craig DiLouie

2021

Peace after Taiwan does not last, and Jack Knapp is pulled into a new war on the Korean peninsula. Telling his story to a reporter, he revisits heroism, trauma, and the desperate fight to stop a nuclear catastrophe.

Forlorn Hope

by Stephen Knight

2022

Battered by months of retreat, Harry Lee's battalion reaches the Georgia-Florida line and gets one last mission at Moody Air Force Base. It reads like a final march into disaster, with survival of the country hanging on exhausted soldiers.

Strike

by Craig DiLouie

2022

Set during the Battle of Midway, this novel drops readers into the air war that helped turn the Pacific campaign. DiLouie focuses on the men in the cockpits and the split-second choices that decide who comes home.

Djinn

by Craig DiLouie

2023

In the chaos after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, a photojournalist searches for her missing father and the truth about a secret occult warfare unit. The journey leads into war's human wreckage and something ancient waiting in the desert.

Episode Thirteen

by Craig DiLouie

2023

A ghost-hunting reality TV crew enters a derelict mansion once used for bizarre experiments, hoping to film their biggest episode yet. What they capture instead turns a haunted-house investigation into a spiraling nightmare.

Q.R.F.

by Craig DiLouie

2023

Coop looks back on Iraq while trying to live with what the war left behind. DiLouie balances combat, boredom, loyalty, and memory in a military novel more interested in the soldier than the slogan.

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

by Craig DiLouie

2024

In 1980s Hollywood, slasher director Max Maurey finds an occult camera and decides to use it to make real horror. Aspiring scream queen Sally Priest is pulled into the film and the evil behind it.

Castles in the Sky

by Craig DiLouie

2025

A B-17 crew heads into the first full-scale daylight bombing of Berlin on Black Monday, March 6, 1944. DiLouie turns one mission into a tight, frightening portrait of courage, fear, and endurance in the air.

Hell's Eden

by Craig DiLouie

2025

On Guadalcanal, a Marine rifle squad fights hunger, disease, shelling, and nighttime attacks as much as the Japanese. It is a gritty campaign novel about staying human on a hellish island.

My Ex, The Antichrist

by Craig DiLouie

2025

Years after punk musician Lily Lawlor's band exploded into fame and violence, she finally agrees to tell the story. What follows is a rock oral history about love, prophecy, murder, and the possible end of the world.

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The Summer Fun Massacre

by Craig DiLouie

2026

In 1992, counselors gather at a Texas summer camp with a dark 1980s history and one surviving final girl. When screams rise again, Deputy Tom Bailey learns the past is nowhere near buried.

Where should I start?

If you want haunted-house horror: Episode ThirteenThe Children of Red Peak
If you want emotional apocalyptic horror: Suffer the ChildrenOne of Us
If you want near-future dread: Our WarMy Ex, The Antichrist
If you want WWII at sea: Crash DiveSilent RunningBattle Stations
If you want WWII on land: The Battle of North AfricaThe Fight for SicilyFortress Europe

Author bio

Craig DiLouie was born in the United States and grew up on a small farm outside a small town in New Jersey. It was the kind of place that gave a kid plenty of room to roam, and just enough boredom to start making whole worlds up in his head.

He has said he wanted to write from a young age.

As a teenager, he found Robert E. Howard's pulp fiction and got hooked. Those stories did more than entertain him. They showed him that fiction could be a portal, and that he might be able to build portals of his own. That early love of adventure, danger, and big emotional stakes still runs through his work, even when the setting shifts from a haunted mansion to a Pacific submarine or a tank in North Africa.

Before his novels found a wide audience, DiLouie worked as a magazine editor and advertising executive. He also built a long career as a journalist and educator covering the North American lighting industry. That mix matters. His fiction often feels both imaginative and practical, grounded in the way people talk, work, panic, improvise, and keep going when events turn ugly.

A lot of readers first meet him through horror. Suffer the Children imagines a world where children die, return, and need blood to stay alive, turning grief into a moral nightmare. The Children of Red Peak takes cult trauma and makes it intimate and eerie. Episode Thirteen uses tapes, journals, and transcripts to turn a ghost-hunting show into a full-on descent into the unknown. In How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive, he brings that same control of dread to a blood-soaked story about filmmaking, obsession, and an occult camera.

He also writes war stories.

That side of his work includes books like Our War, a near-future American civil war novel told through the eyes of a child, and long-running military series such as Crash Dive and Armor. Whether he is writing about submariners in the Pacific or a Sherman tank crew fighting from North Africa to Germany, the draw is similar. Readers come for the action, but stay for the people inside the machine, the command decisions, and the cost of surviving one more day.

Another thing that stands out across his books is how often he writes about pressure. Parents under impossible strain. Children shaped by fear. Soldiers doing the job in front of them while larger systems fail overhead. Outsiders trying to hold onto their humanity when a crowd wants someone to blame. Even his stranger books, like One of Us or My Ex, the Antichrist, keep returning to that very human question of who a person becomes when belief, fear, or loyalty is pushed too far.

His work has been nominated for major awards, including the Bram Stoker Award and the Audie Award. He is also a member of International Thriller Writers, the Horror Writers Association, and the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association.

These days, he lives in Calgary, Canada, with his partner, Chris Marrs, and their two children. He has written across horror, speculative fiction, and military fiction, but the through line is easy to spot. Craig DiLouie likes high stakes, lived-in worlds, and characters who have to keep moving even when the road ahead looks terrible.

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