Whether you’re planning a Halloween soiree or just want something sinister to sip for a party of one, we’ve got you covered with a new batch of three Horror film-themed cocktails to add to your list.
#1 THE BLOODY MARION: A less heavy version of the standard Bloody Mary yet no lighter on the booze, mingling Marion’s softness with her steely deception.
Ingredients
1 1/2 ounces Hendrick’s gin
1 ounce cucumber juice*
1 ounce tomato juice
3 dashes Hella Bitters ginger lemon bitters
Fever-Tree ginger beer, chilled, to top (approximately 1 ounce)
Garnish: dill salt rim**
Steps
Coat the rim of a rocks glass with the dill salt and set aside.
Add the gin, cucumber and tomato juices and bitters into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into the prepared glass over fresh ice.
Top with the ginger beer.
*Cucumber juice: Get out that Ninja or press finely chopped cucumber through a cheesecloth.
**Dill salt: Stir together 1 sprig of dill and 1/4 cup salt in a bowl, and let sit for at least 2 hours before using. Makes 1/4 cup, enough to rim 12 glasses.
#2 MOURNING DOVES: Famous at Nashville’s Pineville Social, this cocktail nods to Christiane Génessier and the caged doves.
Ingredients
1 1/2 ounces El Jimador reposado tequila
1/2 ounce Amaro di Angostura
3/4 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 ounce maple syrup
1/4 ounce simple syrup
Garnish: lemon wheel
Steps
Add all the ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake.
Strain into a rocks glass over a large chunk of ice.
Garnish with a lemon wheel.
#3 THE LAMB: A nod to Dr. Lecter and Agent Starling alike, I give you a Chianti cocktail.
Ingredients:
1 oz of Chianti
¾ oz Cocchi Americano
½ oz Tanqueray Gin
1 tsp Tuaca
Steps:
Build over ice, saving Tuaca for last
Mo Moshaty is an acclaimed horror writer, lecturer, and producer whose work combines visceral storytelling with the psychological insight of her Cognitive Behavioral Therapy background. She has lectured internationally, including as a keynote speaker at Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium (Prairie View A&M), No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium (Horror Studies BAFSS Sig), The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman (University of California), and with the Centre for the History of the Gothic (University of Sheffield). Mo has also presented at the BFI, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s Brain Binge on women’s trauma in horror cinema, Cine-Excess on The Creepy Kid Horror Subgenre and Mother/Daughter Trauma in Horror, and Romancing the Gothic on Cosmic Horror’s Havoc on The Body Electric Her short film, 13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror, won the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Short Film. As a core producer with Nyx Horror Collective, Mo co-created the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Fest and partnered with Shudder in 2021 and 2022, while also establishing a Stowe Story Labs fellowship supporting women creatives over 40+ in horror. A member of the Black Women in Horror Class of 2023 and featured in 160 Black Women in Horror, Mo’s short fiction appears in A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales (Brigid’s Gate Press) and 206 Word Stories (Bag O’ Bones Press). Her debut novella, Love the Sinner, was released July 5, 2024, with Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment released in October 2025. The first of her five-volume non-fiction series, The Annex of the Obscure: The Afterlife, will be released in 2027 from Tenebrous Press. As the Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine and founder of Mourning Manor Media, Mo champions marginalized voices in horror. Under her leadership, NightTide plans to launch a film festival in 2028, furthering her mission to reshape the genre through inclusivity and representation.
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