Iskalde Grøss #7/1992

In a town where most residents are overweight, a mysterious doctor named Perdo arrives offering a miraculous weight-loss capsule. Four people take the treatment, slim down instantly, and then die under gruesome circumstances—starving despite no food. Six months later, Perdo returns in disguise, fleeing the townspeople and seeking refuge in the mausoleum of one of his victims, only to confront a horrifying truth: the real killer is a monstrous tapeworm.

In the shadow of the carnival, the Great Brain—blindfolded and revered for his uncanny mind—rules over his act with cold precision, his slow-witted partner Benny always at his side. When Benny’s mistake shatters the act’s illusion, his only comfort is Hulda, the one woman who ever truly saw him. But the Brain, ever watchful, will not let that connection go unclaimed. When Benny dares to dream of a future with her, the line between performer and puppet snaps—and the crowd will witness a truth far darker than any illusion.

In "Det franske kjøkken," two American producers obsessed with Parisian Grand Guignol horror stagecraft will stop at nothing to force their vision onto Broadway—until their ruthless act of violence unleashes a chilling retribution from a dead theater owner, whose gruesome secrets come back to life in the most literal way.

In "Plass til en til!", young Rodney Whitman, raised by relatives after losing his parents in a car crash, grows up haunted by the family crypt’s final empty casket. On his twentieth birthday, driven by a chilling desire to claim his place among the dead, he eliminates his remaining kin—disposing of their bodies in the swamp, lake, and cellar. But when the dead begin to stir, the crypt’s final resting place may not be his to claim, and the price of securing it could be his very soul.

In "Narren i nettet," a disgraced banker with a secret hobby of keeping spiders finds himself cornered by his chief teller, who knows the truth about his embezzlement. When the teller stays the night, the banker's escalating paranoia leads him to unleash a black widow beneath the man’s bed—only to flee moments later as the consequences spiral beyond control. His escape by small plane ends in a crash over a swamp, where a monstrous spider waits in its web, ready to claim him.

In the isolated horror of the open sea, four survivors of a crashed plane cling to a life raft only to be drawn toward a derelict ship cloaked in a strange, pulsing fungus. When one reaches out to investigate, a single cut unleashes a horrifying transformation—his body dissolves in a viscous, living fluid. Now, two remain, barely clinging to hope as a search plane approaches, unaware that the raft itself has become a carrier of the same deadly growth.

In "En søt duft av hevn!", a disgraced matador, consumed by jealousy, turns to dark rituals to reclaim his lost love, using a half-blind bull trained to charge at the scent of a perfumed handkerchief. As the young rival falls to the beast’s horns, the matador’s vengeance seems complete—until the night the dead rise to settle the score.

In "Sitter som spikret!", a drifter haunted by sudden, uncontrollable urges sets out to find the woman who changed him—though he never grasps what he’s become. Each time he thinks he’s found her, his hunger leads him to a new victim, and the truth of his transformation remains just out of reach. As the townspeople close in, his confusion turns to final dread, but not before he dies without ever understanding the curse he’s lived.