Iskalde Grøss #3/1994

In "Trangsyn!", a small town's fear turns violent when a determined doctor pushes the boundaries of science in his lab. As the townspeople destroy his work, a grotesque lifeform emerges from the wreckage in the sewers—born from failed experiments and rising hunger.

In the quiet dread of a Louisiana plantation home, Laura Rais stumbles through a past that refuses to stay buried. Once a dreamer of brushstrokes and fame, she now faces a haunting legacy—her husband’s portrait, a locked room, and a blue beard that stains more than just skin. As secrets seep from the walls and ink bleeds where it shouldn’t, the line between memory and nightmare begins to fray.

In "Hevnen!", a young woman desperate for money marries a wealthy Texas oilman, only to find herself entangled with one of his workers, Phil. When their plan to kill her husband goes awry and leaves him paralyzed, Phil turns on her, threatening to expose their secret unless she pays him off—leaving her trapped between fear and desperation.

In "Den gale magiker," a master of both ancient and modern magic sets out to perform the ultimate illusion: sawing a man in half and restoring him whole. But when fate itself seems to take up the trick, the line between performer and spectacle begins to blur in ways no spell could predict.

In "Mareritt!", a construction engineer haunted by recurring dreams of being buried alive seeks help from a psychiatrist who interprets the visions as stress from his workload. Determined to confront his fears, he returns to the site of his latest project before his vacation, only to fall asleep and wake up as concrete begins to pour around him—his laughter his only response as he seems to accept his fate.

In "Morderen i kisten!", a man stages his own death from the plague to cover up the murder of his wife, counting on the chaos of the epidemic to hide his crime. But when his lover, the lovely Faye Booth, falls ill and is trapped by the plague, he finds himself buried alive—awaiting a rescue that may never come.

In "Hageselskap!", a quiet evening in a meticulously kept garden turns sinister when a man’s barbecue gathering goes awry. His wife, obsessed with her prized flowers, erupts in fury as guests trample her prized blooms—her calm finally shattering as she reaches for the carving knife, her husband the next course on the grill.

In "Hva sumpen gjemte!", two men push deeper into the Okefenokee Swamp despite a warning from an old man who claims the land holds a terrible secret. The old man recounts how three people—two scientists and a young woman—once came to the swamp to conduct an experiment that went wrong, unleashing something unnatural from the murky waters. Now, as the men press on, the weight of that past and the old man’s haunted eyes suggest the swamp may not be done with its victims.

In the quiet, uneasy town of Pukkelryggen, Roger encounters his old college friend Peter Goglo—once a fellow student, now a man whispered about with dread. The townspeople claim Peter is a ghoul, but the truth is far stranger: a grotesque, flesh-eating twin, stillborn and undeveloped, grows from his back, feeding on him in silence. As Roger stays, the line between memory and nightmare blurs, and the past begins to claw its way out.