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 Eat Your Heart Out Cocktail – Honoring the bittersweet, bloody bond of the Yellowjackets Soccer Team of Wiskayok, New Jersey!
The Cast of Yellowjackets (2021-)
INGREDIENTS
- ½ teaspoon each of salt and white or caster sugar
- 3 pitted cherries
- 1 ½ oz Merlot
- ½ Cherry Liqueur
- ½ oz Simple Syrup
- ½ oz Blue Curacao
- ½ oz Blanco Tequila (your favorite brand)
- 1 wedge of fresh Lime – for squeezing in
- 1 can of San Pelligrino Dark Morello Cherry & Pomegranate OR Schweppes Black Cherry Sparkling Water
- Luxarod Maraschino Cherries
TO CREATE SIMPLE SYRUP
Combine 1 cup Sugar, 1 cup Water mix until combined, bring to a boil for one minute, let cool OR purchase simple syrup from your local grocer.
BUILD THE EAT YOUR HEART OUT COCKTAIL
Rim a tall cocktail glass with lime juice and salt and sugar mixture. Pour in Merlot, cherry liqueur, and simple syrup and combine these together with a spoon until well mixed. Top the glass the rest of the way with fresh ice. Add your blue curaçao and Blanco tequila, and squeeze in the juice from 1 wedge of fresh lime to the wine mixture. Stir everything together with a spoon until combined. Top off with your sparkling water and give one last good stir. Top with 2-3 Luxarod Maraschino cherries in syrup.
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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