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THE MILITIA HOUSE
A chilling ghost story of a debut literary novel, THE MILITIA HOUSE is a major novel exploring the brutality and complexity of endless war with elements of dread and horror woven throughout.
THE MILITIA HOUSE, John Milas' debut novel that reads like THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE if it were written by Tim O'Brien, delving into entirely unexpected horrors of the unceasing war in Afghanistan.
Recently promoted Corporal Loyette, along with a small team, has been sent to spend the penultimate month of his deployment in Kajaki, handling the logistics of receiving endless pieces of artillery. The marines are taking over from the British, who delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just outside their base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted. Though Loyette and his men are eager to break the boredom of their deployment with a clandestine trip outside the wire, they feel inexplicably agitated after the short visit to the militia house. Loyette tries his best to ignore his, and his marines', growing unease, but something about the militia house will not let them go.
THE MILITIA HOUSE was born from John Milas' experiences in Afghanistan, which were full of boredom and dread in the war against "terror." Unlike the writing of many veterans, there is no gore in THE MILITIA HOUSE, which takes its cues from gothic horror like THE TURN OF THE SCREW and is in conversation with more contemporary horror writers, like Sarah Waters and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
John Milas served on active duty as a US Marine before studying creative writing in college and in graduate school at Purdue, where he studied under writers such as Roxane Gay, who was his thesis advisor, as well as Terese Marie Mailhot, Donald Platt, and others. He is honored to have judged University Laboratory High School's Iris Chang & Peter Kolodziej Writing Awards in fiction annually since 2015, and has published his fiction in Hypertext Magazine, Southampton Review, Tributaries, among many others. He currently lives in Illinois, where he roots avidly for the White Sox.
Recently promoted Corporal Loyette, along with a small team, has been sent to spend the penultimate month of his deployment in Kajaki, handling the logistics of receiving endless pieces of artillery. The marines are taking over from the British, who delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just outside their base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted. Though Loyette and his men are eager to break the boredom of their deployment with a clandestine trip outside the wire, they feel inexplicably agitated after the short visit to the militia house. Loyette tries his best to ignore his, and his marines', growing unease, but something about the militia house will not let them go.
THE MILITIA HOUSE was born from John Milas' experiences in Afghanistan, which were full of boredom and dread in the war against "terror." Unlike the writing of many veterans, there is no gore in THE MILITIA HOUSE, which takes its cues from gothic horror like THE TURN OF THE SCREW and is in conversation with more contemporary horror writers, like Sarah Waters and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
John Milas served on active duty as a US Marine before studying creative writing in college and in graduate school at Purdue, where he studied under writers such as Roxane Gay, who was his thesis advisor, as well as Terese Marie Mailhot, Donald Platt, and others. He is honored to have judged University Laboratory High School's Iris Chang & Peter Kolodziej Writing Awards in fiction annually since 2015, and has published his fiction in Hypertext Magazine, Southampton Review, Tributaries, among many others. He currently lives in Illinois, where he roots avidly for the White Sox.
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