British horror styled Ottoman and Egyptian foes as distinct Oriental monsters.

Evidence

A key difference between the two monsters lies in the part of the Orient they represent. While Dracula is a symbol of the Ottoman Turk, the scarab beetle is an Egyptian symbol, tied to the Egyptomania that was then influencing European and American popular culture from architecture and furniture to the installation of copies of the colossi from Abu Simbel at the Crystal Palace, first in Hyde Park and then at Sydenham. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 565

Categorization

• QUESTION: If Dracula = Ottoman and The Beetle = Egyptian, does the reader’s monster taxonomy (Turk vs Arab vs generic Muslim) mirror distinct historical anxieties worth unpacking?