Iskalde Grøss #2/1990

In "Med hodet under armen!", three medical students push the limits of dark humor, using real human body parts in their pranks—laughing at the shock they provoke until the joke turns unsettling. When they realize the cadaver they’ve been using is missing parts, they set out to retrieve the rest, unaware that something in the shadows is already moving toward them. The next day, the police find the students, their bodies arranged in a chilling tableau, their necks wrapped in coiled intestines.

In "Flukt!", convict Pete Lugar bets everything on a desperate escape—switching places with a corpse scheduled for execution, counting on a confederate to dig him out from the grave. But when the coffin is sealed and carted off to the prison’s new crematorium, his plan unravels in a chilling twist no one saw coming.

In "Døden i langdrag!", a man who once survived a war-torn bombsite exacts a chilling revenge from beyond the grave. After his partner betrays him and kills him by dropping him where four states meet—knowing no one can claim jurisdiction—the dead man returns to deliver four distinct, brutal forms of retribution. The air is thick with dread as the past refuses to stay buried.

In "Hodebry!", a man’s dark bargain with the Jivaro head-hunter tribe takes a horrifying turn when a mysterious package arrives at his doorstep. Inside, he finds the shrunken head of his latest victim—its eyes snapping open, fixed on him with silent, deadly intent. As the head lunges, its teeth sinking into his ankles, he stumbles, only to be dragged down by the grotesque, living relic that now has its vengeance in its grip.

In 19th-century Paris, a grieving man must choose between burying his wife or surrendering her body to medical students under a new city ordinance. After delivering her to the medical college one evening, he uses the payment he receives to feed and clothe his children, only to learn the next day that the corpse was not just any body—it belonged to the very Commissioner who enforced the law.

In "Personlighetsspaltning," Ed King finds himself in a dangerously slippery situation when he schemes to marry the wealthy Blair sisters by pretending to be two men at once. As his elaborate lie begins to unravel, the sisters’ calm demeanor gives way to something far more unsettling—leading to a gruesome twist that leaves Ed’s fate split in two.

In "En kunstnerskjebne," a disillusioned artist in Haiti, betrayed by the art world, turns to voodoo for retribution. With a newfound power to craft living paintings that mirror their subjects’ fates, he begins to paint his enemies—but soon discovers he’s also painted himself, and now must guard his own likeness from the very curse he unleashed.

In "Overtramp!", a disgraced elephant trainer finds himself entangled in a deadly web of deceit and desire when his affair leads him to orchestrate a gruesome act of betrayal. After arranging for his wife-assistant’s death during a performance, he marries his lover and begins anew—only to return a year later to the same town, where the past refuses to stay buried. The line between performer and prey blurs as the dead rise, and the past comes calling with a vengeance neither man nor beast can escape.

In the frozen silence of a remote Arctic cabin, a man barricades himself against a vampire lurking just beyond the door, clinging to the hope that dawn will bring salvation. But as the endless night stretches on, his confidence wavers—what happens when the sun never comes?