We know the holiday parties are about the commence and there’s no reason why we can’t keep it horror-ific while the festivities are in full swing!
Every Tuesday, NightTide will be sharing a horror-themed cocktail recipe to honor our favorite characters, themes and films all through New Year’s Day! Next up: The Brigitte and Ginger: Sugar and spice and everything better to tear your heart out. Our tribute to the Fitzgerald Sisters of Ginger Snaps.
Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins in Ginger Snaps (2000)
INGREDIENTS
1.5oz Ten To One White or Dark
.75oz Hibiscus Syrup*
.75oz Fresh Lime Juice
Ginger Beer
Garnish with three Maraschino cherries, a sprinkle of hibiscus flowers and a dash of Grenadine
TO CREATE HIBISCUS SIMPLE SYRUP
Combine 1 cup Sugar, 1 cup Water, 1/2 cup Dried Hibiscus Flowers, 1 Cinnamon Stick, 6 Allspice Berries, and 1 tbsp Fresh Diced Ginger in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cool to room temperature and strain. Keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
BUILD THE BRIGITTE AND GINGER
Add first three ingredients to a highball glass. Stir with a bar spoon to incorporate all of the ingredients. Add ice and top with Ginger Beer. Stir again from the bottom of the glass to ensure all ingredients are incorporated. Garnish with candied Ginger and Dried Hibiscus Flower on a cocktail pick.
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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