OZ:  The Emerald Nightmare

Created and Written by Rick Molchan

Edited by James Joseph Jones of the Weston Chronicles

Art by Les L. Garner

Covers by Jae Lee, Chris Bachalo, Joe Rubinstein, Keith Williams, and more

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This isn’t the Oz you grew up with.  It’s the one Dorothy survived—and the only child ever to escape.  Oz: The Nightmare in Emerald begins where the familiar tale ends and veers hard into the shadows.   In our myth, Dorothy has been secretly writing her firsthand account for L. Frank Baum.  She wants the truth told.   His editors don’t.  They soften and sanitize, turning terror into bedtime story.   But the real Oz is a trap for children—and Dorothy’s fight to escape means facing what waits behind the emerald curtain.

Inspired by the Wizard of Oz and the darker edges of Glinda of Oz, this series walks a Yellow Brick Road cracked with secrets and stained with the blood of its captives.  It's horror - sometimes psychological, sometimes brutally physical - as the "storybook" world reveals what it was meant to be.  Read Dorothy's original version and discover why it was never published!