Charlie Huston


Charlie Huston is an American novelist, screenwriter and comic book writer. They have written various novels in different genres, including Caught Stealing that was adapted into a 2025 film by Darren Aronofsky. They have also written the Joe Pitt Casebooks series that feature a detective who is also a vampire, as well as several standalone novels and comic books.

Personal background

Huston was born in Oakland, California in 1968. When they were two years old, the family moved to Livermore, California, where Huston grew up. When they were 19 years old, they attended San Francisco State University. They married Virginia Louise Smith, and the couple resides in Los Angeles.

Career

Caught Stealing, along with Six Bad Things and Huston's fourth novel, A Dangerous Man, follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he struggles to escape a deadly case of mistaken identity, his past, and build a new life for himself.
In April 2006, Marvel Comics launched Huston's reboot of the Marvel character Moon Knight. They wrote the first 12 issues of the series, concluding the run in December 2007. They also wrote the second Ultimates Annual issue in August 2006. Another long-form comics work was a Wolverine series, Wolverine: The Best There Is, with artist Juan José Ryp.
They wrote the five-volume contemporary vampire noir Joe Pitt Casebooks primarily while living in Manhattan, finishing the final book in the series after moving to California. Their five stand-alone novels are The Shotgun Rule, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Sleepless, Skinner and Catchpenny.
In January 2013, it was announced that Huston was working on the pilot for FX's adaption of the Powers comic series. Between 2017 and 2019, they were a writer and producer on the Fox TV series Gotham.
As of September 2022, they were developing and writing an original TV pilot titled Arcadia for Tomorrow Studios. This project is currently being packaged for further development.
In March 2024 it was announced that Huston was adapting Caught Stealing for a movie to be directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler. The film was released on August 29, 2025.

Henry Thompson

  • Caught Stealing
  • Six Bad Things
  • ''A Dangerous Man''

    Joe Pitt Casebooks

  • Already Dead
  • No Dominion
  • Half the Blood of Brooklyn
  • Every Last Drop
  • ''My Dead Body''

    Standalone novels

  • The Shotgun Rule
  • The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
  • Sleepless
  • Skinner
  • ''Catchpenny''

    Comics

To date, the entirety of Huston's work in comics has been published by Marvel and its various imprints:
  • Moon Knight vol. 2 collected as:
  • * The Bottom
  • * Midnight Sun
  • * God and Country
  • * Moon Knight by Huston, Benson and Hurwitz Omnibus
  • The Ultimates 2 Annual #2 collected in Ultimate Annuals Volume 2
  • Legion of Monsters: Man-Thing: "A Flower in Alien Soil" collected in Legion of Monsters
  • X-Force Special: Ain't No Dog collected in X-Force by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost Volume 1
  • Deadpool vol. 2 #900: "One Down" collected in Deadpool: Dead Head Redemption
  • Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu: Black and White: "The of Memory"
  • Punisher :
  • * The Punisher: Frank Castle #75: "Smallest Bit of This" collected in Punisher MAX: The Complete Collection Volume 5
  • * Punisher MAX: Hot Rods of Death: "Getting Mad" collected in Punisher MAX: The Complete Collection Volume 6
  • Deathlok vol. 3 #1–7 collected as Deathlok: The Demolisher
  • Bullseye: Perfect Game #1–2 collected in Punisher and Bullseye: Deadliest Hits
  • Wolverine: The Best There Is #1–12 collected as ''Wolverine: The Best There Is—The Complete Series''