"How I Won My Bat" seems like a simple story at first. The Hero is a mediocre baseball player who wants to win a game. He then meet a person who gives him a magic baseball bat that allows him to do just that on one condition, that being to bring it back to him at the end off the game. The protagonist wins the game, but refuses to give the bat back. As punishment, the curator turns him into a wax statue.
"Broken Dolls":
This is another story that runs on the Nothing Is Scarier trope. We know the old woman did something to Tamara's brother, but we aren't told directly if she was trying to turn him into a doll or if she was stealing his soul to give one of her doll's perfect features. We're also given the implication that this woman has been alive for an impossibly long time, and there's an entirely unsettling moment during her confrontation with Tamara:
Dollmaker: Young people disappear so often in this century. You'll just be one more...
Then there are the implications regarding the old woman's dolls. At one point Tamara can hear them saying "Stop her" and they make motions as if they were reaching out to Tamara. The fact that Tamara hears cheers of happiness after defeating the old woman implies that the dolls were actually begging Tamara for help!
