The medieval-castle Other trope spans Orientalism and Gothic horror alike

Evidence

We have seen this before. In Romantic Orientalism, the Oriental despot is an individual trapped in the past. Dracula is a member of an ancient race who lives in a medieval castle in a land that time forgot. Transylvania is a wasteland of superstition, monsters, and curses—the opposite of modern London with its genteel and rational Protestants, salons, gardens, parks, and other signs of progress, civilization, and humanity. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 624

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names Dracula among the monster figures; connects medieval monster imagery across genres.
• BMF: The image of an archaic monster isolated in a time-forgotten landscape connects to the segregated present in We.