A child, a doll, and an adult go for a walk on the beach one late afternoon of a cold winter day, before heading home to dinner and a bedtime story.

"Richard Hsieh's dad studies dreams, and one day, they decide to hook Richard's new Slappy doll up to the dream machine as a joke. All of a sudden, Richard starts having nightmares of Slappy coming to life and wreaking havoc. But they're only dreams, right? Except, when his cousin Willow comes to visit, she also dreams of Slappy. It's impossible! But when Slappy threatens to invade more kids' dreams, they'll have to figure out how to defeat him before...

"No one ever leaves Copper Hollow. It's a town with a deadly history . . . but nobody ever talks about it. Kimberly thinks there might be something strange going on. She's not sure what - until the menacing doll appears with two words written across its clothes: BURY ME. Kimberly and her friends try to destroy the doll . . . but every time they think it's gone, it comes back again. Is there any way to rid themselves of the evil once and for all?"--Page...

Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy, and the other toys throw a party to celebrate the first day of fall.

When Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard one evening, he encounters a mysterious girl who keeps jumping out from behind the gravestones; she is wearing clothes that resemble a doll that Bradley took from his sister and accidentally ruined, and now that doll with the melted face is back for revenge--and the reader will find five more equally chilling stories in this collection.

When Yoko's grandparents send her a beautiful antique doll all the way from Japan, Yoko the cat couldn't be happier. She places Miki on a windowsill and brings her candy every day. On Girls' Festival Day, Yoko wants to show Miki to her class and tell them all about the Japanese holiday. In her Big No voice Mama says, "We don't trouble trouble or trouble will trouble us." But Yoko is so excited about Girls' Day that she can't resist taking Miki to...

At a doll collector's request for help, a young sleuth searches for an old album, a lost doll, and a missing gypsy violinist.

William's father gives him a basketball and a train but these do not make him want a doll less.

Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.

Fancy Nancy discovers a new talent for repairing broken toys in her neighborhood, but she must learn to keep her cool when her next patient is her beloved doll Marabelle.