title: Young Dracula: Diary of a Vampire #3 Caliber
author: Gary Francis
description: The life of the man who became Dracula, with early art by Kabukis David Mack. Since Dracula is immortal, of course there will be a Dracula of the Futureand here he is. Note: Indicia reads "Vol. 1 No. 2." 48 pages,
zlib_text: **Guilty Pleasures**
  
   **By Laurell K. Hamilton**
  
    
  
   **Book 1 of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series**
  
    
  
   **1**
  
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  Willie McCoy had been a jerk before he died. His being dead didn't change
  that. He sat across from me, wearing a loud plaid sport jacket. The polyester
  pants were primary Crayola green. His short, black hair was slicked back from
  a thin, triangular face. He had always reminded me of a bit player in a
  gangster movie. The kind that sells information, runs errands, and is
  expendable.
  
  Of course now that Willie was a vampire, the expendable part didn't count
  anymore. But he was still selling information and running errands. No, death
  hadn't changed him much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his
  eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket,
  but now he was an undead slime bucket. It was a new category for me.
  
  We sat in the quiet air-conditioned hush of my office. The powder blue walls,
  which Bert, my boss, thought w