Gothic Muslim monsters are imagined as uncontrollably sexual and perverse.

Evidence

Gothic monsters are often sexual monsters. Zofloya is a Moorish Satan. Seductive and attractive, he is simultaneously repulsive and desirable. Vathek is queer, and when egged on by his dark-skinned Indian lover (a monster with green teeth and pasty, discolored skin), he becomes a sadomasochistic pedophile, murdering young naked boys in a homoerotic carnival of horror. Dracula sucks on the flesh of his victims, both male and female, adult and child, and his copulation with humans, like Othello’s with Desdemona, always carries the threat of monstrous offspring. Muslim monsters express “the conventional assortment of Gothic atrocities—incest, necrophilia, necromancy, murder, and other forms of abuse.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 430

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core inquiry about the ‘muslim monster’ figure; connects to the broader manufactured-image thesis crossing theology, tales, and art.
• DEFINE: Demonstrates the Gothic variant of the Muslim monster archetype: sexuality as the defining defect.