Stoker based his Orientalist fiction on genuine specialist Egyptology

Evidence

Stoker knew far more about the Orient than the average popular writer, and in the case of Egypt this knowledge was translated onto the page: … Replete with references to Egyptology, Jewel demonstrates that Stoker wove his own creative impulses in with his research. … Elsewhere in Jewel, Stoker refers to Young, Champollion, Birch, Lepsius, Rosellini, Salvolini, Mariette Bay, Budge and Flinders Petrie, all expert Egyptologists. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 562

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: did the scholarly grounding make Stoker’s monsters more ‘credible’ to readers, and does this pattern (research legitimating fear) recur across the genre?