About this Event
Please join us in store on Tuesday, July 11th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate John Milas' debut novel, The Militia House. John will be in conversation with Exile MVP Gus Moreno!
About The Militia House:
Stephen King meets Tim O'Brien in John Milas's The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.
It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward--loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters--and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted, and Loyette and his men don't need much convincing to make a clandestine trip outside the wire to explore it.
It's a short, middle-of-the-day adventure, but the men experience a mounting agitation after their visit to the militia house. In the days that follow they try to forget about the strange, unsettling sights and sounds from the house, but things are increasingly . . . not right. Loyette becomes determined to ignore his and his marines' growing unease, convinced that it's just the strain of war playing tricks on them. But something about the militia house will not let them go.
Meticulously plotted and viscerally immediate in its telling, The Militia House is a gripping and brilliant exploration of the unceasing horrors of war that's no more easily shaken than the militia house itself.
About the authors:
John Milas served on active duty in the Marine Corps and deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. He later earned a BA and MFA in creative writing. He lives in Illinois, where he reads, writes, and watches baseball. The Militia House is his first novel.
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us. His stories have appeared in Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, Southwest Review, Aurealis, PsuedoPod, and the Burnt Tongues anthology. His work has been featured in the LA Times, Lit-Hub, NPR, and the New York Times. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and two dogs, but never think that he's not from Chicago.
About the event:
This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free. John and Gus will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available for purcahse in store and online and we ship nationally!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Exile in Bookville, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States
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