The Eastern harem stereotype was projected onto Dracula as a marker of Turkish monstrosity.

Evidence

Dracula’s female vampires comprise his harem. As David Glover argues, “Jonathon’s… seduction by the Count’s three ‘brides’… reinforces Dracula’s identification with the mysterious East, for it is modeled upon the conceit that the influence of Turkish culture on Vlad the Impaler, following his youthful days in Istanbul, would have led him to keep a harem.” The encounter between Jonathon and these female creatures is one of the most sexually explicit in the text. It is yet another example of the Western idea of the harem as a den of delight, a site of unimaginable pleasures. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 546

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supplies the Western-imagination machinery the reader’s whole inquiry tracks; connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ exoticizing of Eastern dress/sexuality.
• SEED: Angle: how the vampire’s harem collapses the Eastern despot and the sexual predator into a single reusable Orientalist figure as early as 1890s.