Run, She's A Werewolf.

Taylor’s True Life Tales: The Vampire and the Werewolf.

Hong Kong, 1995.

I was out there with Alec – my best mate and travelling companion. We’d found ourselves lodging next to a couple called Chris and Elizabeth. Normal enough, right? Just another pair of fellow travellers enjoying the neon city buzz.

But one night, as Alec and I were getting ready to hit a nightclub, they invited me into their room for a drink while they got themselves sorted. That’s when things took a very strange turn.

With completely straight faces – no laughs, no winks, no punchlines – they revealed their secret identities. Chris, they said, was a vampire. Elizabeth? A werewolf.

I kid you not. No theatrics, no drama. Just spoken as matter-of-fact as someone telling you their favourite football team.

I remember sitting there with a drink in my hand, utterly taken aback. Was this some elaborate Hong Kong wind-up? A joke lost in translation? Or was there something darker lurking behind those calm expressions?

Later that night, inside a nightclub drenched in bass and neon strobes, the oddness only deepened. While we were on the dance floor, Elizabeth leaned in close – her lips almost brushing my ear – and whispered that appearances were deceiving. Chris and her weren’t actually together, she said. And, she added with a sly smile, she was “available.”

Now, under normal circumstances, that would’ve been an offer a 24-year-old me might have eagerly pursued. But in that moment, as the music thumped and the lights flashed, something screamed in the back of my mind:

"Run. She’s a werewolf."

I don’t know if it was instinct, paranoia, or just the sheer surrealness of the night – but I pulled back. I laughed it off, pretended I hadn’t quite heard her right, and returned to the safety of the crowd.

Looking back, it remains one of the strangest encounters of my life. Did I really meet a vampire and a werewolf in Hong Kong, 1995? Or were Chris and Elizabeth just expert storytellers with a knack for the bizarre?

All I know is this: sometimes, the weirdest tales don’t come from books or films – they come from real life.

And that, my friends, is why this story finally makes its way into Taylor’s True Life Tales.