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9 best books like The Serpent (Jane Gaskell): Kidnapped, Underland, The Inheritors, The Corner That Held Them, The Vorrh, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning, The Posthuman, Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction, The Cloven

Kidnapped
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
ISBN0439295785
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
The Inheritors
AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0156443791
When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifying things that had never happened before. Inexplicable sounds and smells; new, unimaginable creatures half glimpsed through the leaves. What the people...
The Corner That Held Them
AuthorSylvia Townsend Warner
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey...
The Vorrh
AuthorBrian Catling
ISBN0957142714
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.” 

Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps...
A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning
AuthorJakob Johann von Uexküll
ISBN0816659001
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species,...
The Posthuman
AuthorRosi Braidotti
ISBN0745641571
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated...
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
AuthorMike Mignola
ISBN1506706665
The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and...
The Cloven
AuthorBrian Catling
In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives up all its secrets, as the ancient forest seeks to reclaim what has been taken from it. Those who have been enslaved shall be no longer, and two heroes once thought dead shall reemerge stronger than ever....
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