Mo Moshaty

#NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre is PRE-CODE HORROR!
It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining.
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THE FAMILY WOUND THROUGH THE LENS OF ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ (2025) Breaking the cycles of abuse and trauma starts with the acknowledgement exhibited in the end of the film. Victor’s creation once believed that violence must be inevitable between those hunted and t…

Wrapping up #NightTideMag's Generational Trauma Horror Weekend is Avery Coffey with a look at the reluctance to break generational curses in 'Frankenstein' (2025)
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THE GROUND BENEATH US: INHEREITED FEAR IN JANG JAE-HYUN’S ‘EXHUMA’ (2024) In Exhuma, a family’s buried past quite literally claws its way to the surface, revealing how ancestral wounds and colonial-era curses continue to bleed into the lives of their descendants.

In Exhuma, a family’s buried past quite literally claws its way to the surface, revealing how ancestral wounds and colonial-era curses continue to bleed into the lives of their descendants. Veronica Sixsmith digs in for #NightTideMag.
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REFLECTIONS OF THE DEAD: ‘PSYCHOPOMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE’ (Review) In Eden Royce’s Psychopomp and Circumstance, a young Black woman defies her mother’s grip to oversee her estranged aunt’s funeral, stepping into a mirror-haunted home where family secrets blu…

In Eden Royce’s Psychopomp and Circumstance, a young Black woman defies her mother’s grip and steps into a mirror-haunted home where family secrets blur the line between the living and the dead. Check out @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social's review for #NightTideMag 👻📚
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MICHAEL MYERS IS HAUNTING MY FAMILY, BUT HE NEVER MISSES CHRISTMAS Victoria Hood revisits a childhood fear through the shape of Michael Myers, unraveling a family history marked by addiction, grief, and survival. A haunting and fiercely tender meditation on the mo…

Today, @toriiellen.bsky.social revisits a childhood fear through the shape of Michael Myers; a haunting and fiercely tender meditation on the monsters we inherit, and the ones we outrun together for #NightTideMag.
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art by Echo Echo; a woodland nightmare with numerous easter eggs: a bucket emblazoned wiht a pink skull; a toy doll; a prosthetic arm; a hand rising from the ground; a yellow X, and more

art by Bri Crozier; a fleshy heart is rent apart by sprouting vegetation, fungi and a green serpent sliterhing out, against a white background

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THEY’RE HERE: HAUNTING, INHERITANCE, AND THE FRAGILE AMERICAN FAMILY IN ‘POLTERGEIST’ The Freelings think their nightmare begins in a haunted house. It begins with what the house was built on, and what their family refuses to face.

I took a look at the inter-generational trauma of the Poltergeist franchise, of busted patriarchal myths, maternal heroes and suburban nightmares for #NightTideMag
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SO MUCH BLOOD IN THIS EARTH: GENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.

Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.
@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social dives in for #NightTideMag
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FINDING MY OWN SPACE IN THE LIMINAL DIMENSION OF DEMENTIA AS A WOMAN WHO IS…AGING! These films reveal a brutal truth: dementia is a possession narrative we cannot exorcise. Horror uses the supernatural to articulate what Alzheimer’s already knows: that losing yourself is the most…

Today #NightTideMag is all about generational trauma, identity and transformation.
@jessicarosehorror.bsky.social dives into the cycles of aging, losing identity and agency and the horrors of dementia. 👻 📽️
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My horror non-fiction work is going to be INSANE in 2026, and I'm so incredibly proud of this essay contained in DARKEST MARGINS: 24 ESSAYS ON LIMINALITY & LIMINAL SPACES IN THE HORROR GENRE from 1428 Publishing Ltd.
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It’s official! @andrewpope.bsky.social and I are hitched! 💍 🍰 💒 ❤️

With all my wedding planning shenanigans coating most of my brain, I COMPLETELY forgot that @nighttidemag.bsky.social turned 2 yesterday!!
This mag is my heart & I adore the space I've created for historically marginalized writers, critics, indie filmmakers & authors working in horror. Wahoo!!! 👻📽️📚

With new writing on PEARL by several very talented people, including @momoshaty.bsky.social 🔥🪓

SOMEONE LEFT THE CAKE OUT: KEEPER (Review) In Keeper, immortality is a boys’ club and women are still the entry fee.

Phew! KEEPER was a journey...and a bumpy one.
My #NightTideMag (SPOILERY) review of Oz Perkins' latest venture, reminding us that in horror and life, women remain the preferred sacrifice for men’s long-term plans.
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#FromInsidetheHouse S3 Ep 3 hits the airwaves on Nov 28th, but until then, we're sharing some of our favorite past episodes.
September of 2024 found me and @sharai.bsky.social chatting all things Red/Adelaide. The drama!!!
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NightTide’s Monthly Macabre Series is a place to share our love for films, characters, or themes of a particular subgenre. The series is looking for contributors of listicles, essays, and analysis. Listicles and essays should be 2000 words or fewer. Deadline for November’s Generational Horror is November 21st! Apply through our pitch page on nighttidemag.com/pitch

Our November Monthly Macabre at #NightTideMag is:
GENERATIONAL TRAUMA HORROR!
Anguish, curses, family horrors pushing to the brink of madness. Wanna chat about your fave generational trauma horror for NightTide? Pitch here: nighttidemag.com/pitch
Deadline Nov 21st!

This was so much fun last year!!

THE GHOSTS OF YULETIDE ARE BACK! CALL FOR FEATURED AUTHORS FOR 2025!! The ghosts are gathering again. Ghosts of Yuletide 2025 seeks five authors of color whose words haunt, heal, and reclaim the winter dark. Join our annual celebration of horror and heritage.

❄️🩸We're bringing back Ghosts of Yuletide again! A virtual storytelling event set to celebrate the rich tradition of Christmas ghost tales, whilst also celebrating the often-overlooked contributions of women of color to horror literature. Join us! 👻📚
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