Chac Mool
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A collection of short stories by Carlos Fuentes, set largely in Mexico, where ordinary modern life slips into the uncanny. The title story follows a man who acquires an ancient stone statue and finds that it seems to hold a dangerous presence within his household. Other tales blend myth, memory and the pressures of city life, as the boundary between the living and the dead, and between the past and the present, grows unsteady.
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The stories unsettle rather than shock, building tension through atmosphere and the sense that something old is waiting to be let in.
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