The Gothic monster was a container for white-race degeneration anxieties

Evidence

At the time that Stoker’s horror tales were written and whites were eradicating American Indians from the American West, Europe was preoccupied with its own racial phantasms. In Frankenstein, for example, we see this in the exile of the monster far from Britain. The monster here is representative of all Others—anyone not white, Protestant, and racially clean. “The image and fantasy of the Other, whether monster, immigrant, Jew, or ‘Oriental’ fueled the British conviction that their island and unitary identity was imperiled by encroaching hordes of inefficient and physically undesirable aliens. That fear, compounded by popular science and pamphleteers, predicted the impending degeneration of Empire and the mongrelization of the white race.” This is expressed in Gothic horror fiction, in Stoker’s tales of three Muslim monsters that terrorize the West. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 520

At the time that Stoker’s horror tales were written and whites were eradicating American Indians from the American West, Europe was preoccupied with its own racial phantasms. In Frankenstein, for example, we see this in the exile of the monster far from Britain. The monster here is representative of all Others—anyone not white, Protestant, and racially clean. “The image and fantasy of the Other, whether monster, immigrant, Jew, or ‘Oriental’ fueled the British conviction that their island and unitary identity was imperiled by encroaching hordes of inefficient and physically undesirable aliens. That fear, compounded by popular science and pamphleteers, predicted the impending degeneration of Empire and the mongrelization of the white race.” This is expressed in Gothic horror fiction, in Stoker’s tales of three Muslim monsters that terrorize the West. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s core inquiry: the monster-as-Other container reappears across eras, with Muslims interchangeable with immigrants and Jews in the same fear machinery. Strong evidence for the manufactured image preceding contact.
• SEED: The interchangeable assembly line of Others—monster, immigrant, Jew, Oriental—all feeding one British identity panic is a strong article angle on how projection transfers across target groups.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the specific claim that Dracula stories contain ‘three Muslim monsters’ — which three, and where is that genealogy documented? What role do Stoker’s other novels play?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 520