Iskalde Grøss #5/1994

In "Overgrepet," Lucy returns home claiming she was kidnapped and assaulted by the elderly Hodges, though her absence had been spent with her lover. When Hodges dies under mysterious circumstances and Lucy rejects her lover, his sense of honor drives him to a desperate, irreversible act.

In "Vær på vakt!", a new caretaker takes up residence in a decaying mansion haunted by the unsolved death of its miserly former owner. When strange footsteps echo through the halls on his first night, the man’s fear turns to terror—only to end in a chilling, twisted repetition of the past.

In "Brennende begjær," a desperate couple’s plan to eliminate Pat’s wealthy husband spirals into tragedy when their carefully laid scheme goes awry. With the man asleep and smoking, Conrad and Pat set the apartment ablaze, counting on the fire department to arrive just in time to rescue Pat and frame the death as an accident. But when the emergency crews are delayed, Pat is trapped in the flames—and forced to make a final, fatal choice.

In *Madam Blåskjegg*, a woman haunted by her mother’s legacy raises her daughter in a cult of misogyny, systematically murdering one husband a year—each death staged as an accident. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrated, she must finish the job herself, only to find that her collection of corpses has a mind of its own. As the wind stirs through the cemetery, the dead begin to stir, and the line between killer and victim blurs in the silence between heartbeats.

In "Evig din!", a sculptor deeply in love with his model Christine makes a desperate gesture—offering to silver-plate a life-sized statue of her as a proposal. But when he overhears her conspiring with her lover to murder him and steal his money, his dream begins to unravel. When the lover arrives at the studio seeking Christine, what he finds is far from what he expected.

In "Drep elskeren!", a betrayed businessman named Ken Martin plots revenge after catching his wife with his best friend, Walt. Luring Walt into a moose hunt under false pretenses, Ken hopes to eliminate him—only to find that nature has its own brutal designs.

In "Drep ektemannen!", Walter’s obsession with Kenneth’s wife drives him to a desperate plan, culminating in a moose hunting trip that turns deadly. As the two men set out on a boat rigged with ropes and weights, Walter takes aim—but when his bullets pierce the hull, the boat sinks and he’s left drowning, far from shore.

In "Den siste ære!", Tony, a man bound by a secret marriage to the wealthy but underage Anna, faces ruin when her uncle threatens to expose and annul their union. After Anna dies from the shock, Tony takes a grim vow of devotion—locking himself in her mausoleum with a carnival prize, where he endures a slow, desperate survival amid decay and poison.

In "Fritt fall," aerial daredevil Phil attempts one final stunt—parachuting from a plane while handcuffed—haunted by guilt over Marty’s death and the betrayal that followed. When Phil’s wife Milly learns he sabotaged Marty’s plane, she takes a dangerous gamble, tampering with the key that will free him, turning his daring leap into a deadly game of trust and retribution.

In "Graveren," a mortician haunted by the silent judgment of the dead begins to exact his own twisted justice on the corpses he tends, until one body—still breathing beneath the surface—whispers a desperate plea. The graves answer, and the buried rise not to judge, but to reclaim what was stolen.