NightTide Magazine is a woman-of-color-led horror journal dedicated to exploring the full spectrum of the genre. From cinema and television to literature and academia. We publish slow, reflective, and inclusive horror writing that amplifies marginalized voices, studies trauma and transformation, and treats horror as both art and language. Founded by writer, lecturer, and producer Mo Moshaty, NightTide exists for readers, scholars, and creators who crave depth, not noise.

Our Mainstay

Horror has always been a mirror, but for too long, it has reflected only a few familiar faces.
NightTide exists for the rest of us. For the ones who feel the current beneath the surface, who understand that horror is not a costume or an aesthetic, but a language, one that speaks of trauma, survival, inheritance, and becoming. In an industry built on speed and saturation, NightTide offers depth and endurance.
Our essays and features provide cultural, academic, and emotional context that outlasts release dates, building legacy coverage for horror creators and films that matter. We connect art and intellect, audience and scholar, creator and critic.

We are not here to chase the next release or to echo what the loudest voices say.

We are here to linger, to analyze, to remember.

We write for those who crave depth, not noise, for those who want to understand why horror moves them, not just when it does.

We are slow horror. We are thoughtful horror. We are horror that breathes.

Our work amplifies the voices history overlooked, women, creators of color, LGBTQIA+ artists, disabled and neurodivergent minds, and those who refuse to fit the mold or aesthetic of the “perfect” horror fan.

We are not the genre’s gatekeepers. We are its stewards. We tend its ghosts and its future alike.

There is room in horror for everyone, but NightTide is where the tide turns, where intellect meets instinct, and identity meets art.

We do not compete with horror’s surface. We dive beneath it. We study it. We resurrect it.
And we remind the world that horror isn’t only what we watch, it’s who we are. The tide rises for all horror.

“NightTide isn’t about performing horror, it’s about understanding it. We love the aesthetics that make the genre vibrant, but we also know horror’s legacy runs deeper than décor. It lives in its questions, its history, and the voices still fighting to be heard.
We’re here to expand what horror looks like, and who gets to define it. Horror deserves legacy, and that legacy should be written by many hands: across ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and experiences. NightTide exists to make that possible, a space for reflection, not repetition.“
– Mo Moshaty, NightTide Magazine Founder/Editor-in-Chief