In Oriental Gothic tales, the landscape itself becomes a monster

Evidence

Reflecting a pattern common to many Gothic horror tales, including Dracula, the nightmarish environment in this text functions as a character, another monster in the story. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 506

Categorization

• SEED: The landscape-as-monster device is a strong analytical lens for the reader’s thesis: the East itself is rendered monstrous, not just its inhabitants.