Popular vampire fiction continues to render birth itself as monstrous violation

Evidence

Most recently, the human-vampire that Bella Swan gives birth to in the Twilight series is so monstrous it breaks her bones from the inside and kills her when she finally gives birth. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1187

Categorization

• XREF: This echoes the reader’s interest in how the monstrous is projected onto the female/other body — the baby that destroys its mother stands in the same lineage of terror imagery as the Muslim monster.