The Traveller and Other Stories

A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author

Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has written nine other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction's great living writers.

Now for the first time Neville offers readers a collection of his short fiction--twelve chilling stories that traverse and blend the genres of noir, horror, and speculative fiction, and which bring the history and lore of Neville's native Northern Ireland to life. The Traveller concludes with the long-awaited eponymous novella, the companion piece to The Ghosts of Belfast and Collusion.

Complete with a foreword from Irish crime fiction legend John Connolly, this volume is the perfect indulgence for fans of ghost stories and noir, and is a must-have for devotees of Neville's prizewinning Belfast novels.

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Published Oct 6, 2020

336 pages

Average rating: 8

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Suzanne82
Aug 16, 2025
8/10 stars
It's always hard to know how to review a collection of works, especially in a genre that's less familiar to me. These stories are very dark. They tend to show the very worst of the world and the people in it. Some of the characters cross over between stories, and whenever that happened I was interested to learn a bit more about them, but honestly they are all so evil that I had trouble telling them apart sometimes. Was that the guy that did that really evil thing, or was he the other really evil guy? I wasn't sure I'd be up for finishing this, but I did, and I don't regret it. Despite their being full of darkness and terrible acts, the writing style and the bite-size quality of the short stories made this collection surprisingly easy to consume. I'm not sure what that says about me, but there you have it.

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