The Dark Places of Mexico

A forbidden atlas of a weeping canal, a black horseman, hanging dolls and a volcano that keeps a calendar

La Llorona keeps the hours, the Charro Negro never dismounts, and the dolls of Xochimilco keep company with the trees. The fifth field book moves from cenotes and the guardians of the milpa to Teotihuacan, Popocatépetl and the fog of Real de Catorce. Nyx follows folklore through named places while treating living faiths as neighbors and historical wounds with restraint. An ofrenda is not a dark place; the dead are not a spectacle.