Iskalde Grøss #8/1989

In "Den som graver en grav," two medical students desperate to complete their anatomy requirement strike a grim bargain: pay a man five bucks to dig up a freshly buried body. Their target is a man who believed his so-called friend’s promise of a quick insurance payout—only to find himself trapped in a deadly deception, his life now a lie as real as the grave he’s been buried in.

In "Avskåret fra å elske," a brilliant surgeon's wife and her lover find their secret romance twisted into a nightmarish fate when the doctor, in a chilling act of retribution, separates their heads and swaps them between their bodies. The story unfolds with a cold precision, turning intimacy into a grotesque spectacle where love and betrayal are severed—literally—leaving only silence and dread in their wake.

In "Lille speil på veggen der," a man recounts the chilling moment he became something other—his mind transplanted into a grotesque, stitched-together body of artificial parts. Trapped in a warped carnival hall of mirrors, he stumbles through endless reflections, each one revealing a more horrifying version of himself, until the sight becomes unbearable.

In "Levende død!", two doctors find their lives entangled by love and obsession when one's patient dies under mysterious circumstances. Years later, the surviving doctor is brought back from the dead through a strange, post-hypnotic pact—only to remain preserved in stasis until a single word triggers his horrifying return.

In the quiet of a rural town, Ned finds himself drawn into a chilling mystery when he intervenes to protect Old Mose, a man shunned by the community as a Devil-worshipper. After welcoming Mose into his home, Ned is torn between loyalty and fear when a series of brutal killings begin to plague the area—and the townsfolk point the finger at the man he’s sheltered. When he returns home to find his wife gravely injured and Mose standing in the doorway, bloodied and broken, Ned’s world collapses. The truth behind the violence is far darker than he could have imagined, and the line between protector and predator blurs in a single, desperate moment.

In "Beinhard bisniss," two grimy business partners with a fertilizer factory on the edge of a cemetery take a dark shortcut to meet a big order—tunneling beneath the ground to harvest bones from nearby graves. After their grim task is complete, they head upstate for a vacation, only to find their car stranded in a cornfield that’s been fertilized with their own product. As they push through the stalks, the corn begins to move—slow at first, then with violent purpose—closing in on them in a way that feels far too deliberate.

In "Ni liv!", a desperate man with nothing left to lose becomes the unwitting host of a grotesque experiment: a doctor grafts a cat’s nine lives gland into him, turning him into a living spectacle for profit. As the derelict performs ever more dangerous stunts, his greed leads him to betray the doctor—only to discover too late that the number of lives he has left is not what he thought.