Robin’s Review of Eerie Exhibits: Five Macabre Museum Tales

Eerie Exhibits: Five Macabre Museum Tales

Five unnerving tales of the weird and uncanny from award-winning author Victoria Williamson.

A room full of screaming butterflies.
An unsettling smile on the face of a carved sarcophagus.
A painting that draws its viewer into the disturbing past.
A stuffed bear that growls in the dead of night.
And a shell that whispers more sinister sounds than the sigh of the sea…

Dare you cross the threshold of the old Museum and view its eerie exhibits?

Robin’s Review

Triggers: Grief, emotional neglect, childhood trauma, questionable parenting, low-level existential dread

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Skull Dread Rating: 💀 (More “chill up your spine” than “hide behind the couch”)

Eerie Exhibits is a moody little anthology that delivers just enough supernatural strangeness to make you wonder if your local museum is hiding something worse than a broken HVAC system. Subtle, unsettling, and sharply written—this is horror with brains, heart, and very judgmental butterflies.

What Did I Just Walk Into?

A museum full of cursed crap, emotional trauma, and one seriously judgmental conch shell. Eerie Exhibits delivers five interconnected short stories that prove nothing good ever happens under fluorescent lights and glass display cases. From whispering shells to painting-induced flashbacks, this anthology leans hard into the uncanny, the eerie, and the “wait, did that stuffed bear just growl?”

Each story is laced with quiet horror, haunting atmosphere, and a whole lot of characters who are one unfortunate artifact away from a complete unraveling. Think of it as Night at the Museum—but with unresolved trauma and fewer jokes.

Here’s What Slapped:

Atmosphere so thick you could dust it off an old taxidermy lion. This is quiet, literary horror that creeps under your skin instead of punching you in the face.

The museum setting ties everything together without being repetitive. Each story is distinct, yet shares a strange curatorial dread.

Thelma in “The Shape of the Beast” is the kind of unhinged that’s both sad and scarily satisfying. A+ to that bitter spiral into darkness.

“The Whispering Shell” is a standout—moody, original, and genuinely unsettling. You’ll never look at field trips the same way again.

The writing? Gorgeous. There’s a rhythm to the prose that makes even the creepiest moments feel elegant.

Characters feel real, even when they’re unraveling next to haunted butterflies or grinning sarcophagi.

What Could’ve Been Better:

The first story, The Screaming Room, didn’t quite pull me in. It’s the literary equivalent of wandering into the wrong exhibit first—it gets better after that.

Some inner monologues could’ve been trimmed. I got it the first three times, Thelma.

A few of the twists are a little predictable. You won’t need a third eye to spot where some stories are headed.

Perfect for Readers Who Love:

Quiet horror over gore and guts

Shirley Jackson’s ghost whispering into Night Gallery

Short stories with interconnected threads and emotionally messy characters

Museums, but only if you like your history with a side of haunt

That lingering unease you can’t explain and secretly kind of enjoy

Reviewed by Robin for Robin’s Review

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