As we have seen, the vampire originated in the anti-Semitic and anti-Turkish/Muslim discourse that was a result of British preoccupation with racial purity. The mummy, a creature that represents the mystery and darkness associated with both Africa and Islam, is a product of Orientalism and Egyptomania. The zombie’s genesis was formulated by the fictionalization of African religion and was inspired by the mummies of Egypt. These monsters of modernity, including the Muslim monsters identified in the following pages, express the “social anxiety toward Islam and Muslim cultures that is largely unexamined by, yet deeply ingrained in, Americans.”

XREF: Connects monster tropes to postcolonial theory and Orientalism (Said). QUESTION: How directly is today's zombie and vampire media still drawing on these racialized origins?

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 643