How to fight fear that this game inspires?

[Sergiy]

There are some barrels in the corner, grab them and make yourself a "safe spot", should you hear growling, or anything scary, hide behind them.

I gotta admit, I was very scared to enter the prison... But those barrels were my "Happy place".
Also, if you get too scared, pause the game, take a 30min break, may not be the best thing for the atmosphere, but it's healthy!

Do you know that monsters in Amnesia have the power to crush even like a twenty-barrels barricade?

Yeah, i assumed as much. I never gave them a reason to do so though.
I'd hide behind them, they'd wonder around as i observe them through a gap.