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.. - Mo Moshaty
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 and Cine-Excess: Mother, May I?: Mother/Daughter Trauma in Horror.
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 with Tenebrous Press in 2025.
In the Spring of 2024, NightTide Magazine came under the sole control of Mo’s production house, Mourning Manor Media. As the Editor-in-Chief of the 100% Woman-of-Color-led NightTide Magazine, Mo champions marginalized voices in horror. Under her leadership, NightTide plans to launch a film festival in 2026, furthering her mission to reshape the genre through inclusivity and representation.
Culminating from years of research on women’s trauma in horror cinema, in August of 2024, Mo launched From Inside the House Podcast.