Dear Tribune Readers • You know how I occasionally like to make book recommendations? Well, October seems like the perfect month to talk about “horror” as a genre — which, btw, I never read, unless you count the daily news. So I asked my friend Claire Margetts, bookseller and horror aficionado extraordinaire, to a) explain why she loves herself some horror and b) to make a few recommendations for you.
“I like the feeling of being scared for characters,” Claire says, “and I know this sounds crazy, but I like the blood and guts and screams.