Not least by making her, in the illustrations ... Actually, Baum didn't seem much interested in The Wicked Witch of the West. "She only appears in one chapter," Shanower said.

In Baum's novel, the most famous witch is the Wicked Witch of the West, and the one who tries to get Dorothy out of the Land of Oz. The story also has other Wicked Witches from other sides of the ...

Frank Baum's story is undoubtedly the definitive version of The Wizard of Oz, and from it, The Wicked Witch of the West emerged as one of the most fearsome and most memorable movie villains of all ...