A young boy staying with family friends in New Orleans finds himself obsessed with their antique, lifelike doll Moriya. As his obsession grows into sexual passion, he becomes determined to uncover the secret behind Moriya's enchanting powers.

Growing up, a girl and her brother perform a ritual with her dolls in the woods. Now an adult, the woman marries and must introduce her new husband to the ritual.

A little girl tells the story of how her ceramic figurines come from glazing little people that live in the walls of all houses.

Kate's father, suffering from dementia, disappears for months at a time into the Yard, a massive antique resale business he owns and operates. Kate is tasked with retrieving him.

In Jim Crow America, a newly animate Black doll struggles to find herself a loving human friend.

A middle aged man comes across an old museum for Word Dolls on the side of the road, where he meets and older woman who tells him old horror stories from the farms nearby. She tells him about the Mower Manc, a murderer who used to roam the fields only for the Word Doll museum to disappear mysteriously afterword.

A woman recalls the terrifying ventriloquist dummies her father made when she was a child and how she destroys them in order to save her mother.

After getting hired by a family in the New England suburbs, a young nanny tells the children scary folktales. When the boy begins to have night terrors and the boy's father falls gravely ill, she suspects that it is more than mere ghost stories that haunt the family.

When trying to spy on his cousin's love interest, a boy stumbles upon a terrifying secret.

A mother with a haunted past fears her six-year-old daughter is not fully human and wishes she would leave.