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We're excited to welcome horror author John Milas to the shop for a meet & greet and book signing! John will be signing copies of his highly recommended debut novel, The Militia House. Described by author Gabe Hudson as "Tim O'Brien and Edgar Allen Poe writing Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone", this literary horror novel puts a bold wartime twist on the gothic haunted house story...a truly eerie read for the season!Books will be available for purchase at the event, but quantities are limited so pre-orders are highly encouraged! Reserve your copy here: https://bobzbay.square.site/product/militiahouse/12230
About The Militia House: "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."
About the Author: "John Milas is a writer from Illinois. His debut novel, THE MILITIA HOUSE (Henry Holt, 2023), was nominated for a 2023 Shirley Jackson Award, longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and additionally recognized by Indies Introduce, Indie Next, and The Audacious Book Club. He received a Walter E. Dakin fellowship to attend the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2024.
He has studied with writers such as Marianne Boruch, Roxane Gay, Brian Leung, Robert Lopez, Terese Marie Mailhot, Julie Price Pinkerton, Donald Platt, Sharon Solwitz, Jill McCorkle, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin. He is represented by Julia Kardon of HG Literary and Dana Spector of CAA.
In his local community, John periodically hosts workshops at his hometown library and judges creative writing contests. He has read submissions for literary magazines such as Sycamore Review and Ninth Letter and has completed various freelance assignments as a journalist and editor."
For more info about John Milas, please visit: https://www.johnmilas.com
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Bobzbay Books, 419 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701-3915, United States,Bloomington, Illinois
