Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier

Lou Bodenhemier holds an MA in History from the University of Limerick and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He’s interested in maritime and disaster history as well as criminal history, and his dissertation focused on the werewolf trials of early modern Europe. At the present moment he can most likely be found perusing records of shipboard crime and punishment during the Age of Sail, or failing that, writing historical fiction horror stories. He lives in Dublin and hates the sun.

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Shark Found in Antarctic for First Time Ever

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The Untold Survival Story of the 15th-Century Venetians Shipwrecked on an Arctic Island

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Nepalis to Follow Watershed From the Summit of Everest to the Bay of Bengal

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