Following the sensitivity edits to Roald Dahl’s books, RL Stine is rewriting bits of of the Goosebumps book series before their next reprints. For example, a “plump” character is now “cheerful” while the word “silly” replaces “crazy.” From Deadline:
In a reissue of the 1998 title Bride of the Living Dummy, the ventriloquist dummy Slappy knocks out a girl unconscious with a “love tap” but the villain now uses a magic spell. In the 1996 book Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns, a character is described as “tall and good-looking, with dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. Lee is African-American, and he sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool, like the rappers on MTV videos.” The revised version now calls the character “tall and good-looking, with brown skin, dark brown eyes and a great, warm smile. He sort of struts when he walks and acts real cool.”
(via ComicBook.com)
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