Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35384609-20180423111736

Hi! Like I said in a previous conversation, I'm French, and also a big Goosebumps fan. I own nearly all the Goosebumps books in french, and I wanted to know if you were interested in infos about them?

Because, there are some things worthy to note, like in the translations. The french translations, while at the beginning started as faithful to the books in english, in the end started to diverge from the English ones. Most of the time it is nothing, like some sentences missing or small chunks omitted (maybe these are mistakes I don't know). But the most striking thing I noticed is for the book "Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns".

The translators just decided to change the ending. Like that. They thought it was too gross, disgusting or shocking for children, I don't know, and changed it. The force feeding of the children was cut, the mention of cannibalism was also cut, and the ending is changed : now Drew and Walker went to a police station to report everything, but the police did not believe them, so they decide to write a book about it.

It never felt truly like a Goosebumps ending, and now I know why.

I don't think there were other differences so huge in the french translation, but still I think it's a quite interesting piece of info. 