Iskalde Grøss #7 [1988]

In "Hemmeligheten," a young boy adopted by a seemingly kind couple soon discovers their true nature—vampires who plan to feast on his blood. But when their plan unravels, the boy’s hidden curse awakens, turning the tables in a chilling twist neither predator nor prey could have foreseen.

In "Kjærligheten overlever alt!", a female vampire and a male werewolf forge a forbidden bond, hunting the hill country together and meeting once a month when his curse peaks. As the villagers hunt them down, they are staked and buried in the devil’s graveyard—only to rise again that very night, married beneath a moonlit sky, their tomb a sanctuary for the years to come.

In a distant castle with a haunted belfry, a young apprentice watches his master ring the royal bell on the Queen’s birthday—only to be denied his own chance, sparking a deadly act of jealousy. When the old bell ringer is murdered by his apprentice, the killer’s fate is sealed in the most chilling way: he becomes the bell’s clapper, doomed to toll for eternity.

In "Morderdrøm," a maniac axe murderer becomes trapped in a chilling cycle, living as his victim in dreams—until the need to complete his violent act compels him to return to the scene of the crime, where another life hangs in the balance.

In "Blod til lyst," a man marries a woman shunned by the town, rumored to be a vampire after her five husbands mysteriously die. As he grows closer to her, he begins to suspect the truth behind the deaths—and discovers a dark, intimate connection to her secret. The story unfolds with quiet dread, blurring the line between predator and prey, as a hidden illness and a shared bloodline unravel in a chilling twist.

In "Det gamle brannvesenet," long-time firefighter Dan Harper faces growing tension with the new Fire Chief, Miller, after his retirement. When a fire breaks out at Dan’s home, the Chief’s delayed response raises troubling suspicions. Soon after, Miller receives a chilling call about a fire at his own house—only to find the descent pole replaced with a razor-sharp steel strip, leaving him trapped in a nightmare of his own making.

In "Nattmat," Duncan Reynolds finds himself caught in a surreal loop of hunger and dread, beginning with a late-night read that spirals into a nightmarish journey through a restaurant serving grotesque food and a cemetery where he digs up a corpse. As the line between dream and reality blurs, he flees with the body, only to return home—only to face the chilling truth when hunger strikes again and he opens his refrigerator.

In "Gjenforeningen," a young woman haunted by a love that defied time returns to a lake every five years, hoping to reunite with a man lost to a train wreck—only to be met with a chilling, rotting truth beneath the surface of her longing. The story unfolds with quiet dread, weaving memory, grief, and the uncanny into a haunting exploration of devotion and the past’s relentless grip.

In "Imperialistsvin!", a British officer in colonial India ignores his uncle’s warnings and hunts a sacred wild boar, then prepares and serves it in a gruesome feast. The act shocks the native servant present, and though the uncle tries to make amends, word spreads — leaving the officer vulnerable to a terrifying reckoning.