About NightTide

NightTide Magazine is an independent, woman-of-colour-led horror publication publishing criticism and long-form cultural writing. The magazine approaches horror as a cultural form shaped by history, power, identity, and lived experience, rather than as a cycle of releases or trends.

NightTide publishes work on horror film, literature, folklore, and related media, with an emphasis on writing that is reflective, research-informed, and not tied to immediacy. We are interested in work that remains useful beyond the moment of publication and that treats horror as a space for analysis, memory, and meaning.

A core part of the magazine is Monthly Macabre, an open-call section that publishes multiple writers each month. Through this section, NightTide has supported both new and established writers, with several contributors going on to be shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards.

NightTide is edited by Mo Moshaty, a writer, editor, producer, and lecturer whose work engages with horror, trauma, and cultural memory. The magazine operates independently and without institutional funding, and is run with an emphasis on editorial care, transparency, and clearly defined limits around labour and capacity.

NightTide is a digital publication. Its work has been read, shared, and taught across academic, festival, and industry contexts, and continues to support writers working at the margins of horror criticism and cultural commentary.

Founded in 2022, NightTide remains committed to open access through its submission model while maintaining a selective editorial process. The magazine exists for readers who value depth over noise, and for writers interested in horror as a cultural language rather than a surface aesthetic.

NightTide is not concerned with chasing the next release or amplifying the loudest voices. We are interested in close reading, considered analysis, and the long afterlife of horror stories once the credits roll.

Our work centres voices that have historically been overlooked within genre discourse, including women, Creators of Colour, LGBTQIA+ writers, disabled and neurodivergent contributors, and those whose work does not conform to narrow ideas of what horror culture should look like.

NightTide holds space for criticism, emerging, marginalized voices, and sustained engagement with the genre’s histories and futures.

“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