Clairviolence

Overview

The Tarot holds mystery, prediction, and unsettling omens for those who practice, divine, or are sensitive to it. A turn of the cards weaves CLAIRVIOLENCE through space and time to delve into the stories of those shaken by life-shattering choices that threaten to tear their souls apart:A warring couple is forced to reconcile during the end of the world.A young man is drawn into the surreal prison-scape of an elderly woman.A dead woman’s curse travels miles and decades to bring her killer to justice.CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT unearths one novelette and ten short stories—each one exclusive to this volume—beneath the exterior of an otherwise charmed and quiet existence.

Author Biography

Mo Moshaty is a writer, lecturer, and producer. She has incorporated her extensive Horror background, as well as her career as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, into lectures with Prairie View A&M in Texas as a keynote speaker for Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium; Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies on From Inside the House: Dissecting Women’s Trauma in Horror, and The Whole Damn Swarm: 30 Years of Candyman with University of Sheffield; Fear2000 for The Horror Evolution Will Be Colorized; and many more.She is a core member and producer with Nyx Horror Collective, whose 13 Minutes of Horror Film Festival screened on Shudder; of Stowe Story Labs, a collective focused on supporting woman-identifying creatives over 40 working in the Horror genre; and she is the Editor-in-Chief of NightTide Magazine.Mo featured in 160 Black Women in Horror by Sumiko Saulson, Kenya Moss-Dyme, and Kai Leakes. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous venues, and her novella, Love the Sinner (Brigids Gate), was released in 2022. Beginning in 2026, Mo will be releasing a multi-volume non-fiction exploration of Horror across history and cultures, THE ANNEX OF OBSCURITIES, also through Tenebrous Press.