"When I got the call the next morning, I felt a horror beyond belief," recalls David.
'I feel a mild horror about what goes on in the wet darkness between the shells of bivalves,' he wrote in 1989, the year he became food critic of American Vogue.
It's hard not to feel a sense of horror standing outside One Commercial Street, a tremendously ugly glass-clad tower in an area supposed to be on the fringes of the City.
Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during the nineteen-forties felt a similar horror when, after waving goodbye to their neighbors, they received no recognition in return.
But by the mid-1970s, aftereadingng "quite a lot of rather poor science fiction novels", he began to feel a "real sense of horror, eventually, that this was not useful fiction.
The original Dynasty was a show for the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which fed into a tangle of emotions about 1980s capitalism: viewers were required to feel a mixture of envy, horror, fascination and admiration for beautiful Joan Collins, her wicked ways and her much-emulated fashions.
My life felt like a horror movie all over again.
It's stronger than the first by a long shot, with much tighter pacing it feels like a horror thriller in itself, with the confidence to be its own thing, less the loose mishmash of Goonies/ Gremlins/ Aliens/General 80s Spielberg tropes that defined season one.
And some of the requisite horror effects do feel a bit arbitrary.
"To my horror, I do feel a little connected to Kevin," he confided devilishly.
