Land of Oz

Edited by Marie O’Regan, this anthology gathers 13 original stories inspired by L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz tales. Its dark-fantasy approach takes the shared setting as a springboard for new contributions from writers including M. R. Carey, Christina Henry, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Jonathan Maberry. The collection’s defining thread is its return to Baum’s imaginative world through contemporary genre fiction, with the stories ranging across the Oz inspiration rather than presenting a single continuous narrative. It offers a distinctly darker counterpart to the familiar tales, while keeping the focus on multiple authors’ interpretations of the same fantastical source.