Vampire women fuse dangerous animal appetite with seductive European beauty.

Evidence

In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor. They came close to me, and looked at me for some time, and then whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. … The other was fair, as far as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires… . The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth… . I could feel the soft, shivering touch of her lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes with languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 547

Categorization

• FICTION: The ‘thrilling and repulsive’ seductress who licks her lips like an animal is a transferable horror-heroine archetype usable in a monster narrative.
• XREF: connects to: Female vampires threaten a propagation that needs no male seed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1043