 Checking these claims against scans he obtained directly from Stockholm, De Roos established that there must have existed "two different" Swedish variants.It soon turned out that the second serialization of "Mörkrets makte"r, in the tabloid "Aftonbladets Halfvecko-Upplaga" ("Evening Paper's Half-Weekly"), from 16 August 1899 – 31 March 1900, as first obtained by De Roos, had been shortened to ca.107,000 words, while dropping the diary style after Part I.