R.L. Stine Accuses Publisher of Censoring
Goosebumps Books without Permission
Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/7/2023 2:08:38 PM
Children’s horror author R.L. Stine has accused his publisher of editing references to weight, mental health, and ethnicity in over a dozen of his books without his permission. Certain titles from the Goosebumps anthology, second only to the Harry Potter books in terms of popularity, have been re-released as sanitized e-books by Scholastic, a new report from The Times has revealed. The move comes after huge controversy enveloped the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s books for hundreds of similar changes, leading the publisher to agree to continue printing the original versions alongside the new bowdlerized editions. While The Times originally claimed Stine, 79, had agreed to the changes, the author denied
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