Thanks Johano.
This bar helps, I just need to give some cheer back.
Maybe giving a dark fear a name, like our little (?) Tiddles the bar ...erm... mascot out back makes it less of a terror. Unless it's your turn to bath him. (Her? Anyone got close enough to notice?)
Indeed, nameless fears are the most fearsome... which reminds me that I want to re-read a lot of Lovecraft and also the Earthsea books by LeGuin.