Iskalde Grøss #2 [1988]

In "Det er servert!", a woman trapped in a marriage built on psychic connection begins to plan an escape with the circus animal trainer, drawn to him by a love her husband’s mind-reading act can never truly deliver. When her husband discovers her betrayal, he forces the trainer into a lion’s cage, but the wife, suspicious yet powerless, watches in silence—until fate delivers a second chance when her husband is paralyzed during the circus’s final packing, and she chooses to let him suffer in silence.

In the quiet, shuttered town of Nattmat!, a man skeptical of local legends finds himself drawn to a restaurant that shouldn’t be open—its doors wide, its lights warm, its menu far more appetizing than it should be. As dusk settles and the streets empty, he steps inside, unaware that hunger is not the only thing he’s about to satisfy.

In "Fast fisk!", Bernice, tired of years of Stanley’s fishing trips and the endless row of mounted fish, decides to follow him one Saturday morning—only to uncover a shocking betrayal. What begins as a quiet pursuit turns into a tense, personal reckoning when she realizes Stanley’s affection isn’t reserved for her, and the trophy case at home may soon hold a very different kind of prize.

In the grim silence of wartime rationing, a butcher finds a way to survive—selling prized steaks to the rich while quietly passing off horsemeat, then stale, then tainted meat to the rest. When his son dies after eating the spoiled meat, his wife’s grief turns sharp and silent, and with a carving knife in hand, she takes a terrible, precise revenge. The butcher’s shop, once a place of commerce, becomes a chilling monument to what happens when trust is butchered.

Mens mannen var ute etter ... is a slow-burning horror tale rooted in rural vengeance, where a moonshine-drinking mountain man’s betrayal turns him into something far more monstrous than flesh could ever be. When his wife and her lover drown him in a still with a bag of lye, his body dissolves into a creeping, vengeful blob—seeking retribution in the shadows. As the two who betrayed him begin to unravel, the line between man and monster blurs in a story of rage, ruin, and the price of deceit.

In the shadowed silence of Baldy Mountain, a man cursed to live forever wrestles with a body that refuses to stay dead. When Pete, haunted by a cancer that would end him, seeks the Old Hag’s dark bargain, he trades his death for endless decay—bound to rot, yet never truly die. Now, as a monstrous creature from the past resurfaces, its hunger echoing through the valley, the posse stands at the cave’s mouth, knowing the horror they face is not just flesh and bone, but something far older, far hungrier.

In "Svelg unna!", a sword-swallower finds herself trapped in a marriage to a man whose insatiable appetite consumes every penny she earns from her act. As his weight grows and his cravings spiral, she quietly engineers a twisted reversal—encouraging him to master the very skill that once defined her. When he finally swallows the blade, she locks him in the dressing room, leaving him at the mercy of the consequences he’s invited.

In the damp, forgotten heart of a swamp, a shack stands half-swallowed by the mire, its rotting beams hiding a secret kept by a man too simple to know better. As the ground gives way beneath him, the shack’s occupant—lost to hunger and madness—finally meets the fate he’s long prepared for his victims.