The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
“People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.”
“Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.”