HAROLD SAYS . . . is a weekly column by your Herald team of things we’d like you to do.
Listen
- “Halloween,” Phoebe Bridgers (2020)
- “The Devil Had a Hold on Me,” Gillian Welch (1998)
Read
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
- The Water House by Nneoma Ike-Njoku (2026)
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
- The Cloisters by Katy Hays (2022)
- The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (1979)
Watch
- The Ugly Stepsister dir. Emilie Blichfeldt (2025)
- Get Out dir. Jordan Peele (2017)
- Rosemary’s Baby dir. by nobody, somehow? (1968)
Attend
- An Evening at Transilvania: Transilvania Restaurant and Bar in East Haven
And Remember
- If Mary Shelley were alive now, would she be called a “nepo baby”?
