Gothic horror fiction derived its monsters partly from Orientalist wasteland imagery

Evidence

In Chapter 4 particular attention is also given to Jewish-Muslim villains, many of which are situated in the discourse of Orientalism. I also examine how the wasteland, a landscape featured prominently in Orientalist poetry and drama, strongly influenced Gothic horror fiction, a genre of Romantic literature that includes numerous Oriental monsters, including a Moor named Zofloya and a Turkish vampire named Dracula. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 32

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that Dracula is also a Turkish/Muslim vampire, not just a Transylvanian one, directly feeds the reader’s inquiry into how the Muslim monster was manufactured in fiction. Complicates the standard reading of Stoker.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the specific ways Stoker marks Dracula as Turkish/Oriental — the racial and religious coding of the vampire beyond the surface-level Carpathian setting.