I had an interesting challenge posed to me recently, and by recently, I mean near the beginning of the year. An author friend challenged me to write a horror book, or, if not pure horror, a book with horror elements in my standard genre. In exchange, he was going to add sci-fi elements to one of his books, just to see how it went.

I tried. I really did, but I can’t do it, and it’s not why you might think. So let’s talk about it below the fold.