Children find a mysterious box of toys in Henry Kuttner’s and C. L. Moore’s Mimsy Were the Borogoves, which have unexpected properties. Then after hating the movie it was made into, we discuss other stories with powerful objects that were gifts from aliens or that travelled through time.
Links:
Mimsy were the Borogoves by Henry Kuttner {Astounging, February 1943]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v30n06_1943-02_dongev-sas/mode/2up
We Need to Talk About Kevin [2011]:
https://tubitv.com/movies/512252/we-need-to-talk-about-kevin
The Babadook [2014]:
https://tubitv.com/movies/676660/the-babadook
The Twonky (Movie) [1953]:
https://archive.org/details/the-twonky-1953-arch-oboler-vose-fac-6
The Twonky by Lewis Lewis Padgett [Astounding, Spetember 1942]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v30n01_1942-09_missing_fcifc/mode/2up
Hawk Among the Sparrows by Dean McLaughlin [Analog, July 1968]:
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/AN/AN_1968_07.pdf
Not to be Opened by Peter Grainger (as Roger Flint Young) [Astounding, January 1950]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v44n05_1950-01_dtsg0318/mode/2up
Business as Usual, During Alterations [Astounding, July 1958]
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v61n05_1958-07_LPM
