Anthony O'Neill (born Melbourne Australia in 1964) is a fiction writer.[1] He has been published in 14 languages. His first novel Scheherazade (2001) is a revisionist Arabian Nights epic. The Lamplighter (2003) is a philosophical tale of the macabre set in 1880s Edinburgh; it was heavily influenced by the stories of Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle. The Empire of Eternity (2006) is a mystery involving Napoleon Bonaparte and the early years of Egyptology. The Unscratchables (2009; published outside Australia under the pseudonym Cornelius Kane) is a pop-culture satirical novel and social commentary featuring anthropomorphic dog and cat detectives.