Mo Moshaty: Crafting a New Era of Horror
Mo Moshaty is a multi-award-winning horror writer, producer, lecturer, and cultural critic whose work explores the intersections of horror, trauma, identity, and cultural memory. As the Founder of Mourning Manor Media and Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine, she has built platforms dedicated to amplifying voices historically marginalized within the genre while advancing horror as a space for rigorous cultural conversation.
Through NightTide Magazine, Mo champions creators from communities often excluded from traditional genre spaces, including Creators of Color, LGBTQIA+ artists, disabled and neurodivergent creatives, and those challenging ageism within horror. Under her leadership, the publication has become a home for long-form criticism, essays, and industry conversations that treat horror not simply as entertainment but as a lens through which social anxieties, historical trauma, and identity can be examined.
In 2026, Mo launched I AM HORROR, an archival initiative created through NightTide Magazine to document and celebrate the global voices of color shaping horror today. Designed as both a living archive and a visibility campaign, the project highlights writers, filmmakers, scholars, and artists whose work expands the boundaries of the genre while preserving their contributions within horror history.
Mo’s work spans fiction, nonfiction, film, and criticism. She is the author of the horror novella Love the Sinner and the tarot-inspired collection Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment. Her nonfiction work continues with Annex of the Obscure, an ongoing research and writing project exploring death, burial traditions, the afterlife, and the cultural rituals surrounding mortality across global histories. This research reflects Mo’s longstanding fascination with how horror engages with grief, spirituality, and humanity’s enduring relationship with death. A complete list of Mo’s fiction and nonfiction publications can be found here.
She is also the host of the podcast From Inside the House, which examines the representation of women’s trauma in horror cinema and explores how the genre reflects real-world experiences of grief, rage, psychological manipulation, and survival.
Her film scholarship has contributed to several archival and home media releases, including an essay for Second Sight Films’ re-release of Ti West’s Pearl and commentary work for restoration releases such as the Vinegar Syndrome edition of the Mexican horror film Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are). Her work often explores how horror reflects social anxieties surrounding gender, race, faith, and psychological trauma.
As a filmmaker and producer, Mo has collaborated with Nyx Horror Collective on the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Festival and Summit, an international showcase dedicated to woman-identifying and non-binary horror creators. The festival’s 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror anthology won the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film, and the collective has partnered with organizations including Shudder and Stowe Story Labs to support emerging filmmakers working within the genre.
Mo is also an internationally recognized lecturer whose work bridges academic analysis and public film education. Drawing on her background in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, her talks explore horror cinema through psychological and cultural frameworks, particularly the representation of women’s trauma and mental health. She has lectured internationally across the United States and Europe at institutions and events, including Prairie View A&M University, the University of Sheffield, Cine-Excess, and the Miskatonic Institute for Horror Studies.
She is also a regular contributor to public film education programs. She has been a fixture at the British Film Institute, where she has delivered horror film introductions and patron education sessions examining the genre’s cultural, psychological, and historical significance.
Mo appears in the anthology 160 Black Women in Horror, which highlights influential voices shaping the genre today. Across her writing, lecturing, and producing, she approaches horror as a space uniquely capable of interrogating the human experience, asking difficult questions about power, trauma, faith, identity, and survival while creating space for new voices and perspectives to emerge.
Through Mourning Manor Media, NightTide Magazine, the From Inside the House podcast, the I AM HORROR archive, and her continuing nonfiction research through Annex of the Obscure, Mo continues to push horror toward a more inclusive, intellectually curious, and emotionally honest future.