The Militia House: A Novel

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not-so-quiet horrors of war.”
—Roxane Gay

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 helicopte...