Stoker reused aquiline noses to mark Muslim monsters

Evidence

Dracula has an aquiline nose, a common attribute of Muslims found in numerous writings, including another of Stoker’s Muslim vampires. In The Mystery of the Sea (1902), the villain Don Bernardino is described as having this feature: “Don Bernardino, with his high aquiline nose and black eyes of eagle keenness, his proud bearing and the very swarthiness which told of Moorish descent.” Later in the story, it is revealed that this Moor, like Dracula, is a monster. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 542

Categorization

• DEFINE: Aquiline nose documented as a stock physiognomic marker of the Muslim monster figure across Stoker’s fiction.