Our Bodies, Their Altars

Our Bodies, Their Altars is an unflinching horror collection that refuses to soften the blade. In these visceral, haunting stories, Cleo-Mar A. Pagan carves out the raw, unvarnished truth of bodies marked by violence, memory, and survival.Set across Puerto Rico and its diasporic shadows, the collection drags the reader through colonial ruins, haunted Airbnbs, futuristic settings, and blood-soaked ritual spaces where the line between vengeance and justice dissolves. With fearless prose that embraces bodily horror, spiritual dread, and systemic critique, Pagan writes for those who know that healing begins only when truth is named-no matter how ugly, bloody, or taboo.Our Bodies, Their Altars is a testament to reclamation: of land, of ancestry, of self.