Iskalde Grøss #4/1994

In "Romanse i transe!", a man's dark obsession with hypnosis spirals into a chilling act of betrayal when he uses his power to silence his wife in a trance—only to later conspire with a new lover to kill her permanently. A year later, as they stand at her grave, guilt overwhelms the woman, and he snaps her out of her anguish with the old command. But the ground splits open, and the buried wife rises, reclaiming her power in a final, horrifying twist.

In "Dødslik!", a desperate petty thief stumbles upon a shocking revelation: his wealthy virtual double is a man with no memory, confined to a local sanitarium. With a twisted plan to swap identities and escape his life of crime, he schemes to take the millionaire’s place—only to find the truth is far more dangerous than he imagined. The line between illusion and reality blurs in a story where identity is a weapon, and the price of deception is death.

In "Doktor Død," a desperate professor at the Hampshire Surgeon School resorts to grave-robbing to boost his class enrollment—only to spiral into a darker ambition when he begins orchestrating murders to eliminate rivals and climb the ranks of power. As his macabre experiments grow more elaborate, a chilling twist reveals that his own body has become the ultimate specimen in his twisted scheme.

In "Brannfella!", a wealthy estate becomes a stage for betrayal and deadly deception. Georgia, married to Martin for his fortune, schemes with her lover Bill to kill him by trapping him with a vicious new horse—only for Martin to turn the tables, silencing Bill and setting a trap of his own. When the police uncover Bill’s body in the cellar, wrapped in Georgia’s scarf, the evidence points to her as the killer.

In the isolated Hawkin's Tourist Colony, a restless Tom drowns his sorrows in drink when his friend Jim arrives, shaken by a vivid nightmare: a couple checks in, terrified by a looming presence, only to descend into violence when the woman kills a cat in fear—then the man murders her before taking his own life. Jim dismisses it as mere dream logic, but moments later, the very same couple steps out of the night, standing at the door with no memory of the dream—only the weight of a past that refuses to stay buried.

In "I pose og sekk!", Norman and Sally’s plan to escape together in New York hinges on a deadly deception: Sally, transformed to resemble Norman’s wife Bertha, must impersonate her while Norman carries out the murder. After their successful ruse and a surprise win on a radio game show, the couple’s elation turns to dread when they learn a film crew is excavating Bertha’s buried treasure—right where Norman left her body.

In the suffocating dark of the coal cellar, young Toby grapples with voices that aren’t his own—commands that lead to punishment, whispers that blur the line between reality and madness. When a voice from the chute claims to be his aunt, trapped and desperate, Toby hesitates, torn between fear and the memory of a voice that once sounded like his mother. But the silence that follows is heavier than coal.

In "Farlig lik," a Hollywood writer's growing unease over his sister Nan's relationship with Eddie takes a chilling turn when he and Nan stage a test to expose him. Disguising an actress as Nan in bed, they wait to catch Eddie in the act—only to witness something far worse than they imagined. The truth behind his charm begins to unravel in the dark, leaving them both staring into a danger they never saw coming.

In the damp, forgotten depths of an old asylum, a desperate scheme unfolds as patients are forced into crumbling dungeon cells to cut costs. When state inspectors arrive, the doctor scrambles to hide the truth—only for a lone, mad old man to break his silence, screaming for his lost "Linda." His frantic dash into the dark leads the inspectors to a shocking discovery: the name he calls out belongs not to a person, but to a monstrous rat that has long ruled the asylum’s hidden tunnels.