Anthony O'Neill is a fiction writer. He has been published in 14 languages. His first novel Scheherazade is a revisionist Arabian Nights epic. The Lamplighter 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 is a mystery involving Napoleon Bonaparte and the early years of Egyptology. The Unscratchables is a pop-culture satirical novel and social commentary featuring anthropomorphic dog and cat detectives. In October 2014, 20th Century Fox preemptively purchased the film rights to his unpublished science fiction novel The Dark Side. The book was acquired for publication by Simon & Schuster at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and will be published in 2015. 

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