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The Schoolroom

by Julia Graves

  • 2 hr 34 min listen
  • 16 chapters
  • Published 8 July 2026
Sinister InstitutionChild Abuse HorrorBuried SecretsCover-UpReform School HorrorCaptivity HorrorBleak EndingDread EndingSilenced VictimsBearing WitnessWhistleblowerInstitutional AbuseTeen in PerilHistorical HorrorComplicity HorrorBanality of EvilDehumanization HorrorHostile CommunityEscape AttemptIsolated SettingBureaucratic HorrorFailed JusticeNo EscapePsychological HorrorPain HorrorOutsider ProtagonistForced ComplianceCaptured InstitutionsBoys in PerilTrue Crime Inspired
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Robert Painter is fifteen years old and guilty of nothing worse than stealing a car radio, but the judge sends him to Dalton—a reform school the newspapers call a model of progressive discipline. Behind the manicured lawns and the warden's polished smile, something monstrous waits in the basement. The boys call it The Schoolroom, and the only rule that matters at Dalton is never to ask what happens inside. Robert must survive long enough to tell the truth, if anyone will believe him.

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