Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

He has also written and performed a one-man show about Christopher Marlowe, written a festival stage show called The Bastard Monks, and still performs his show Filthy Irish Stories for the Sterling Renaissance Festival in the summer. Early in his career the material was period and PG-13, performed in the lanes, but as the act moved on stage and into festival taverns it got bluer, more modern, and wilder, and has a strong cult following-most of his 18,000 Facebook followers have personally seen his show. He speaks French with near fluency and is conversant in Spanish.Ī lifelong fan of renaissance festivals, Buehlman developed an act called “Christophe the Insultor,” roasting fair-goers for money at the behest of their friends, and has been touring with this act for 25 years. He studied French language and History at Florida State University, graduating in 1994 with a bachelor's degree. He briefly attended the University of Florida that year, then got his associate degree from St. He graduated from Northeast in 1985 at the age of sixteen. He attended Thom Howard Academy, a school for gifted and special needs students, from 1973 until 1982, when he enrolled at Northeast High School as a sophomore. He was subsequently adopted by Joseph and Christeen Buehlman of Saint Petersburg, Florida. Petersburg, Florida.īuehlman was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1969, to an adolescent young woman originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. But then, when you’re dealing with those across the river, nothing is as it seems.Christopher Buehlman (born 1969) is a novelist, comedian, playwright, and poet from St.

I thought the best part of many very good parts was the ending, which seems as though it is going to be a quiet little epilogue. They soon find out, though, and poor Frank and Eudora get caught up in the town’s nightmare in a way that leaves them both scarred forever.

No one talks out loud about why the pigs are sacrificed every month, and it seems likely the current generation doesn’t really know the reason. At first, things seem placid and slow in the little town, but then don’t they always? Trouble begins when the town collectively decides that the economic hardships caused by the Depression mean it can no longer continue the decades-long tradition of setting two pigs loose in the woods across the river during the full moon. What a delightfully creepy story! Two northerners, Frank and Eudora, come to a small Georgia town in the midst of the Depression, fleeing from the scandal that their romance and marriage caused.

Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman