Malk is a storyteller and audiobook narrator from the gothic paradise that is Whitby, who now lives near Hay-on-Wye, in the foothills of the Black Mountains. He can often be found wandering through the countryside, talking to himself in a variety of peculiar voices. If you challenge him on this, he will scowl and say he is “practising”, although he may be evasive when asked why. Near Hallowe’en, he wears even more black than usual, and has been known to tell ghost stories under the pseudonym “Doctor Posthumous”.