The Wicked movie and Broadway musical of the same name have some similarities to the original children’s story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. While the 1900 novel is centered around the main ...

The original 14-book series by Baum is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy with bizarre characters and settings. Many popular adaptations are based on Baum's books, like Return to Oz, which borrowed ...

Most of these weren’t written by Baum – after his death in 1919, his publishers outsourced dozens more “Oz” books from other authors. Here are the 14 books in Baum’s original series: ...

In short, people are finding Oz everywhere but in the original books by L. Frank Baum — who ... West — is the central villain of the "Oz" series. Here, as always, he is up to no good: in ...

Baum’s original Oz books are in the public domain, so anyone can use its characters for any purpose. Judging by the intense marketing campaign behind Wicked, it looks like the movie is going to ...

Baum no doubt revealed his full intentions in his original introduction ... In later books in the series, Baum explained that no one in Oz ever dies, ages or gets sick. There are several minor ...

In fact, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (the original published title ... its sequels were considered pulp books — like "The Hardy Boys" or the "Tarzan" series — that no library need feel ...