Christopher Buehlman

Christopher Buehlman is a horror and fantasy author and poet that is best known for his novel “Blacktongue.” The native Floridian won the Bridport Prize in poetry in 2007 and has also written several plays including the very provocative “Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka.” Apart from his writing, he is something of a cult figure on the renaissance festival circuit where he is known as “Christophe the Insultor.” His comedic persona is a combination of Oscar Wilde and Doug Stanhope with a tinge of Dennis Miller. His performances involve roasting the friends of people that have paid him. He has performed at the Michigan renaissance festival and the Texas renaissance festival and has also performed at other shows in Scarborough, Tampa and Louisiana. His debut novel was the 2011 published novel “Those Across the River” that won a nomination to the World Fantasy Award. He currently makes his home in St Petersburg Florida.As a teenager, Christopher Buehlman went to the Florida State University where he graduated with a French language degree and minored in History. Christopher also had a huge interest in storytelling and was huge on horror and fantasy. Growing up during the seventies and eighties, he was significantly influenced by the “Lord of the Rings” novels. He soon graduated to the king of Horror fiction in Stephen King that he believes was his most significant influence. Outside of writing influences, Buehlman was also huge on movies. He still remembers the movie “The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and the Cyclops” and still thinks it was a masterpiece of frightening and non-stop horror. On the fantasy side, he counts the likes of Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman and Martin Abercrombie as huge influences and would be delighted to work with any of them in future works.