The Sleepwalker Press is proud to announce the completion of its latest volume 

                                    ~ The Diaries and Journals of William Walker ~ 

In The Diaries and Journals we have a further, leather bound, handmade volume of the A5 proportion - 300 pages in length, containing innumerable and uncommon sepia photographs (also contains extensive glossary of terms with reference to The Translation of Uses manuscript).
~ The Diaries and Journals of William Walker ~
In a time gone by my grandfather, William Walker, dreamer and confidant of that self-styled archimage, Quelron Bathis, came into the possession of several volumes of esoteric lore. Utilising their cabbalistic sorcery he devised and augmented many wild, steam motivated devices. Whilst all of his inventions were faithfully documented and photographed, only his diaries and journals remain to stand witness to his accomplishments. What remains of this documentation I have put together in the form of "The Diaries and Journals of William Walker Esq".
Inner page, showing diary entries and The Aethercraft being lowered into the waters, off Whitby                           ~ The 'tub' was as much at home in the seas as in the clear air above ~
Device Art. No: (364/12) Working Name: Steam Powered Flying Carriage/Submersible Designation: “Aethercraft”Development: Circa 1929 Fearing volcanic activity, I quickly pulled the tub back so to watch the tumult from a distance. As the shock-waves lost impetus and the waters calmed sufficient for reasonable vision, the seabed was revealed to be heaving and mounding as though some buried denizen of the deep wished to make itself known. Like some concealed aquatic - having buried itself beneath the ocean bed for concealment - the billowing eddies of silt and sand spread out in ripples, showing the hidden thing to be upon the grand scale. An ugly, red-mottled dome, more rocklike than organic - so covered in crustacea was it - first showed itself, and still the thing hefted more of its hidden bulk from beneath the seabed. As the aberration, with a strangely stilted, stop-motion jerkiness dragged itself further from out the mire, more of its foul lineaments were revealed to sight. Sloughing a gathered age of detritus from off its form it tore its gelatinous body from the ground. Through a mist of slowly settling silt, a gargantuan, hydrocephalic dome of a head was first revealed, only to be immediately followed by the sack-like, ribbed and corded, pendulous mass of its lower extremities. With this exposure came the source and realisation of many a nights forgotten incubean torment and the return of childhoods nebulous terrors. Here stood the radix of all men’s disquiets and deepest dreads, the tap root of all our unnamed but deepest fears.                                                                 ~ extract from 'The Aethercraft',                                                                          The Diaries and Journals
Image from The Diaries and Journals                                                           ~ The Aethercrafts trial flight ~
But what of that flagitious Biblionihilistica and the postscriptum of the Twin Codicils that addend it? How came they from the claws of demons to the hands of Man? How came they then to this modern age?   Through the agency of this same Quelron Bathis, they were initially passed to my grandfather, William Walker, in the year 1929, thence, subsequent to my fathers death, to my hands in this year of 2009.    In ‘The Diaries and Journals’ we have the decades spanning tale, told through the medium of fragmented diary and journal entries and illustrated by many sepia photographic images, of a Victorian gentleman scientist who had the misfortune of many a close call with those entities, called by some, The Great Olden-Ones.    Grandfathers wish to improve upon the steam powered technology of his age by the inclusion of methods esoteric (a system he termed 'Mechanotheurgia') set him down a most unfortunate path. Steam power coupled with sorcery. Sorcery unknowingly derived from Them-Ones. Innocent to begin with but ending in terror and horror most foul. Subsequent to a sojourn in India/ Tibet his later esoterically-infused engines take him to the fetch of Ralyey, thence to the very froth upon the chin of Yog Sotot.
From The Diaries                          ~ Here we see William Walker, himself ~ stood before The Somnicura Device ~
William Walker in early years.      ~ The first flight of The Transvectapede (pre-runner to the Aethercraft) ~