Books by Craig Dilouie and Complete Book Reviews
Craig DiLouie, Author . Salvo $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-930486-79-9
DiLouie (Paranoia
) 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. Lawrence Dobbs and Timothy Muldoon are long-service NCOs in the...
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Craig DiLouie. Gallery, $16 trade paper (398p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3963-2
A few honest chills breathe a bit of much-needed life into this apocalyptic horror novel, which otherwise relies on one-dimensional characters. DiLouie (The Killing Floor) veers from his standard zombie fare to the more domestic question of how...
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Craig DiLouie. Orbit, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-41131-8
One-dimensional characters and offensive clichés mar DiLouie’s (Suffer the Children) disappointing chronicle of rising unrest between “normal” people and a group of disabled children set in Huntsville, Ga., in 1984. In 1968, an incurable sexually...
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Craig Dilouie. Orbit, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-52526-8
In a dystopian United States eerily reminiscent of the present, an impeached U.S. president refuses to leave office, starting a civil war. Dilouie (One of Us) focuses the story on orphaned children in Indianapolis who must participate in the war in...
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Craig DiLouie. Redhook, $16.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-42813-2
With this chilling story of cult abuse, DiLouie (Our War) proves his mastery of the slow slide from psychological drama into supernatural horror. As the 15th anniversary of the mass suicide of the Family of the Living Spirit approaches, one of the...
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Craig DiLouie. Redhook, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-44310-4
A classic horror plot—a team of ghostbusters investigates a house rumored to be haunted and finds more than they bargained for—is underserved by the tedious narrative style of this paranormal thriller from DiLouie (The Children of Red Peak). In 2016,
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Craig DiLouie. Redhook, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-56931-6
DiLouie (Episode Thirteen) remixes classic horror tropes into a harrowing thriller set in 1988. Middle-aged Max Maurey, known for his series of low-budget Jack the Knife slasher films, is appalled that audiences are cheering and laughing at the...
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Craig DiLouie. Run for It, $19.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-57818-9
Outré even by the standards of supernatural horror fiction, DiLouie’s ostentatious, 1990s-set latest (after How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive) proposes that the Antichrist is the front man for a Pennsylvania art band and that the apocalypse he...
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