Dracula has an aquiline nose, a common attribute of Muslims found in numerous writings, including another of Stoker’s Muslim vampires. In The Mystery of the Sea (1902), the villain Don Bernardino is described as having this feature: “Don Bernardino, with his high aquiline nose and black eyes of eagle keenness, his proud bearing and the very swarthiness which told of Moorish descent.” Later in the story, it is revealed that this Moor, like Dracula, is a monster.

XREF: Connects to Orientalist literary tropes and how physical stereotypes coded villainy in Victorian fiction beyond Dracula. Also echoes how racialized features were used to signal moral corruption.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 542