Throughout these novels, Baum crafted dozens of characters deserving of movie treatment, from Polychrome to Button Bright. While "Return to Oz" did finally bring some iconic Oz characters into live-action, darkness was never the point of Baum's work. And what a work it was: there are 14 "Oz" books and four short story compilations, not even getting into the volumes written by other authors after his passing. Thus far, the closest we've gotten is 1985's remarkably dark "Return to Oz," and if you saw that movie as a kid, you certainly still carry the mental scars from it. Sure, we're all familiar with Baum's first book, which famously became the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," but Baum's stories about that magical land didn't end after Dorothy Gale tripped her way back over the rainbow - in fact, the best stuff was packed into numerous sequel novels.
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