Modern monsters shifted from identified bodies to pervasive everywhere

Evidence

Whereas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance demons were largely identified with particular bodies, particularly Jews, Africans, and Muslims, in modernity, monsters were everywhere. … Many of these cases involved gender and sexuality, whether in the identity of the monster (witches) or in the desire of a particular body (the Jewess, the Muslimah, the Polynesian, and so forth). — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 353

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the shift from ‘particular demonic bodies’ to ‘monsters everywhere’ a dilution or an escalation? Does the loss of a single target make the threat more diffuse and thus more anxiety-producing?