Gothic literature resurrected medieval geography of Muslim monsters

Evidence

Although demons and other monsters occupied the human world, what existed beyond the borders could be even more bizarre and horrifying. This helps to explain why most Muslim monsters were located in distant lands, frightening landscapes that had been forgotten by God, with no sun, no vegetation, only monsters. These places are later resurrected as part of the new medievalism of Gothic literature, seen in Transylvania and the far regions to which Frankenstein’s monster briefly escapes in what may be understood as a visit home. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 115

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: tracing the medieval ‘God-forsaken borderland’ map into Gothic/horror geography as evidence the Muslim-monster imaginary never died, only relocated.
• BMF: Frankenstein’s monster escaping to far ‘God-forgotten’ regions framed as a visit home evokes the liminal exile-figure wandering authentic territory in White Noise and Goon Squad’s displaced figures — but genuinely closer to A Very Minor Prophet’s exiled underclass traversing a city that has forgotten them.