I've always been drawn to the great unknown of space.
Of dark forbidden places. Something bigger, stranger. After watching The Twilight Zone episode, "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", the characters' tempers and anxiety flare knowing they have landed on what they believe to be a foreign planet and the stakes of survival are at an all-time high, I knew that was my world from that time on. That's the tension and drive I want to convey, in any genre..
Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium
Mo Moshaty is a horror writer, lecturer, and producer. Flexing her horror insight, coupled with her additional vocation as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Mo has lectured with Prairie View A&M in Texas as a keynote speaker for Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium, with Horror Studies BAFSS Sig for No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium, with Centre for the History of the Gothic at the University of Sheffield and the University of California for The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival's Brain Binge on Women's Trauma Within Horror Cinema, Cine-Excess: Raising Hell on The Creepy Kid Horror Subgenre and Mother/Daughter Trauma in Horror, Romancing the Gothic: Cosmic Horror’s Havoc on The Body Electric, and Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, London on Women’s Trauma in Horror Cinema,
13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror
Was the recipient of the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film.
As a core member and producer with Nyx Horror Collective, creators of the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Fest for Woman-Identifying and Non-Binary creatives, she has partnered with horror streaming giant, The Shudder Channel for 2021 and 2022, as well as Stowe Story Labs where the collective has created a fellowship to help support woman-identifying creatives over 40+ working in the horror genre. Mo has also been awarded a slot in the prestigious Black Women in Horror Class of 2023, and can be found in the collection, "160 Black Women in Horror" by Sumiko Saulson, Kenya Moss-Dyme, and Kai Leakes.
Still engaging with her first love, short horror literature, her work can be found in "A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales", by Brigid's Gate Press, and "206 Word Stories" by Bag O' Bones Press. Her debut novella, "Love the Sinner" will be released on July 5th through Brigids Gate Press, and her following titles, "Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment will be released in 2025.
In the Spring of 2024, NightTide Magazine came under the sole control of Mo’s production house, Mourning Manor Media. Mo still retains her role as Editor-In-Chief and plans to expand NightTide into the film festival sphere in 2026.
NightTide Magazine
NightTide is dedicated to elevating voices in the horror genre and expanding the definitions of what horror means in our world today. While we highlight horror in all its forms, we always strive to advocate for and to shine a light on historically marginalized creatives working within the genre, in as many incarnations as possible. We celebrate Creators of Color, the LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and Neurodivergent communities in horror, and those breaking the barriers of ageism in the genre, giving them a platform to emerge from the shadows, visible and seen.
Culminating from years of research on women’s trauma in horror cinema, in August of 2024, Mo launched From Inside the House Podcast.
FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE PODCAST
From Inside the House Podcast dives into key characters’ stories, & the traumas they reflect, from the Possessed, the Vengeful, the Grief-stricken, the Hysterical, & the Objectified. By exploring these portrayals, we aim to spotlight how horror can mirror real-life societal fears for women.
Our goal is to enact change by focusing the conversation to analyzation with celebration. As art imitates life, we are in hopes that the topics we will be discussing, albeit heavy subject matter, will help people find hope in the real-life traumas they face, and in turn, seek more horror cinema, seek help and support for traumas they themselves are facing, or recognize traits in friends and loved ones and provide that support. All through the love of horror films.