J. Arbuthnot Wilson is about to spend a memorable New Year’s Eve. He and the group he is travelling with were going to visit the sealed pyramid of Abu Yilla on the next day but Wilson is so impatient that he decide to rush and climb the Egyptian pyramid all by himself. He finds a secret entrance and he enters a magical world full terrors and astonishments. What he sees there is far from what he expected. The mysteries he discovers are unexplainable. How will he ever get himself out of there? Find out in Grant Allen’s "My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies".Grant Allen was a Canadian writer who lived in the period 1848 – 1899. His writing career began around 1876 when he published a series of essays on science. His first books, "Physiological Aesthetics" and "Flowers and Their Pedigrees" took up this subject as well. Grant Allen was also a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote about thirty science fiction novels in the period 1884-1899. In his later works, Allen also took up some revolutionary theories for the time regarding marriage. "The Woman Who Did" which depicts the life of an independent woman who takes care of her child on her own became a bestseller.