Iskalde Grøss #1/1990

In "Rotløs ungdom," an elderly man wronged by age discrimination returns to Haiti, seeking vengeance through a voodoo practitioner’s dark magic. He commissions a tree that grows in reverse, its unnatural roots mirroring the decay of his former boss’s life—until the man unravels into nothingness, reduced from adulthood to infancy and beyond.

In "Skyggefull fortid," a man's dark secret begins to follow him like a shadow after he kills his wife to marry a wealthier woman. As he tries to build a new life, the haunting presence of his dead wife's shadow grows more insistent, twisting his fate in ways he never imagined. The line between guilt and punishment blurs as the shadow becomes both witness and executioner.

In 1667 Germany, a gluttonous Duke exploits his starving subjects, demanding a tax for the "crime" of a child’s blood staining his carriage. When his friend Emile volunteers to pay the price, only to have his hands cut off, Johann devises a quiet, cunning plan to reclaim what was stolen—both in gold and in justice. "Dyr kost" unfolds with chilling precision, where hunger and cruelty feed a revenge as cold as the stone walls of the castle.

In "Trynefaktoren," a father’s world unravels when he believes he’s raising two daughters—one radiant, one grotesque—only to discover the horrifying truth behind their existence. What he thought was a pair of separate children was, in fact, a single Siamese infant with two heads, a secret his wife kept hidden until the moment it could no longer be denied.

In "En selsom seanse!", Alan Bitsby challenges a medium to summon the spirit of his supposedly deceased wife, determined to expose him as a fraud. The medium, unaware that Mrs. Bitsby is still alive, enters a trance and succeeds in calling forth her spirit—only to be met with stunned disbelief when Bitsby declares the act a sham and walks away. But when Bitsby returns home, he finds his wife dead, her life extinguished in the most literal sense.

In a haunting tale from *Iskalde Grøss #1/1990*, a once-popular knife-throwing act in Hungary takes a dark turn when Harry awakens to find his wife Olga unresponsive—presumed dead. As he prepares her burial, he discovers the horrifying truth: Olga is a vampire, and their act has long been a cover for her feeding. When Harry decides to flee to the U.S. to escape her, he becomes her final, unwilling victim. On the night of the final performance, as the audience watches in silence, he makes a shocking announcement—then throws a wooden stake at her heart before collapsing on stage.

In "Blodig blikkfang!", a man haunted by the ghost of his murdered victim sees his former law partner everywhere—until the torment becomes unbearable. After blinding himself in a desperate bid to escape the visions, he is hospitalized and, upon regaining sight, sees something that drives him to leap from a window. The doctor, staring after him, can only shake his head and mutter that the man must be mad.

In "En sjelden mann!", the Crypt Keeper recounts the eerie tale of how his parents met—a 4000-year-old Egyptian mummy and a two-headed corpse—unraveling a dark, ancient origin shrouded in mystery and macabre wonder.

In "Døden skal du lide!", a high school teacher finds himself trapped in the nightmarish dream of a disturbing student, Felix Purdy, whose twisted mind turns the classroom into a personal hell. As the lines between reality and nightmare blur, the teacher begins to suspect that the boy’s awakening might not be salvation—but an end to his own existence.