Iskalde Grøss #5 [1988]

In "Skjæring!", a man’s chilling attempt to hide his wife’s murder unravels as his meticulously planned disposal of her body is thwarted at every turn. When his friend invites him to dinner and casually reveals he’s been using the meat from the locker—knowing exactly what it is—the man’s composure begins to crack.

In "Tysteren," two corrupt detectives, Ed and Bert, run a brutal extortion scheme, forcing innocent men to confess to crimes they didn’t commit—until their latest victim refuses to cooperate. When the eighth man, a young man who doesn’t break under pressure, is beaten to death by Bert, the truth begins to unravel in ways neither officer expected.

In "Mer velsignet det er å gi," a long-married couple confronts the quiet end of their shared life with a chilling act of mutual betrayal. As they prepare their anniversary meal, each secretly sets a trap—she rigs the wine to explode, he plants a bomb in the cake—only to discover the other’s plan in time. The story unfolds with tense, quiet dread, building toward a tragic inevitability neither can escape.

In "Som man sår ....," a young man faces execution in the electric chair, his final thoughts drifting to his childhood and the contrasting memories his parents hold of the same events. While they recall their past with quiet pride, he remembers it with sharp, painful clarity—each moment a thread in a life shaped by choices that now lead to this end.

In "Kidnapperen," a desperate father's world unravels when his infant son is stolen, plunging his wife into a spiral of grief that fractures her mind. As his own sanity frays, he makes a tragic, misguided attempt to reclaim his child—only to be mistaken for a kidnapper and killed by a furious mob.

"Hat!" is a stark, unsettling story about a man whose quiet complicity in a hateful act unravels when his mother reveals a shocking truth: he was adopted, and his real parents were Jewish. The revelation forces him to confront the choices he’s made and the life he’s lived on borrowed identity.

In the harsh confines of an outdoor prison, a guard’s cruelty reaches a breaking point when a prisoner dies under his brutal treatment. Tom, pushed to the edge, devises a desperate plan to reach the guard’s house beyond the prison walls, using stolen meat to lure the vicious dogs away. When the guard destroys the meat cache, Tom makes his move—only to reveal a shocking truth, as he steps forward, his body transformed, having fed his own flesh to the beasts.