Kaspar Hauser is also referred to in Jonathan Lethem's 1997 novel "As She Climbed Across the Table", Katherine Neville's novel "The Magic Circle" (1998), in Steven Millhauser's short story "Kaspar Hauser Speaks" (published in "The Knife Thrower and Other Stories", 1998), in Ted Chiang's short story "The Evolution of Human Science" (originally published as "Catching Crumbs from the Table" in the journal "Nature", 2000), Jeffrey Eugenides's novel "Middlesex" (2002), Maggie Nelson's poem "Kaspar Hauser" (2003, itself a probable reference to the Werner Herzog film), and Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser" (published in "Trouble in Mind", 2004). He is also referred to in Nick Hornby's "Juliet, Naked" (2009) and Emma Donoghue's "Room". He is mentioned in Edward Carey's novel "The Swallowed Man" (2020). Kaspar Hauser serves as the namesake and inspiration for a character in Dan Abnett's Horus Heresy novel "Prospero Burns" (2010). The protagonist, "Kasper Hawser", shares a similar mysterious origin and childhood as attributed to Hauser, including his only toy being a wooden horse.