05. “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains . . . “ A man hires a guide to lead him to cursed treasure, which is to be used to facilitate the invasion of a dethroned king. This is far from Gaiman’s best. Overly long, disturbingly predictable, and ultimately anticlimactic, it’s Gaiman’s unique authorial voice applied to a generic story following a generic sequence of events. I spent the last half of the tale looking forward to the next in the anthology, which says it all about how interesting this one was to me.