The Yellow Fog. The Mystery of the Deserted Castle

Волшебник Изумрудного города #5-6

by Alexander Volkov

This book, the last of three, contains the two final Oz-inspired "Magic Land" stories of the six written by Russian author Alexander Volkov (1891-1977).
In "The Yellow Fog," an extremely wicked giantess-witch named Arachna tries to take control of Magic Land, and when the inhabitants refuse to submit to her, she unleashes a dreadful yellow fog on them.
"The Mystery of the Deserted Castle" tells of some extraterrestrials from the planet Rameria who come to Earth with the idea of conquering it, and everything possible goes wrong with their grandiose plans

408 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Alexander Volkov (Александр Волков) wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie" and Oz is renamed "Magic Land"), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones.

First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with the sixth and final story published posthumously in 1982.

Associated Names:
Александр Волков - Russian
Alexander Wolkow - German