Snakes and Ladders Author:Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell Snakes and Ladders is about English revolutionary Cromwell, who was dug up three years after his death in order to be executed. To further shock you, we learn that Pre-Raphaelite beauty Lizzie Siddal was also exhumed so that Rossetti could retrieve his manuscript book of poems, given to her in her death as a token of his eternal love.