3 elements

I think, in order to for a gothic story to be good it must have all three elements. whether it be some of one element and more of the others or have all the elements in equal use. There are gothic stories that base the story more off of the action and supernatural and only a little bit on the atmostphere. For example, a lot of horror movies like Day of The Dead or Paranormal Activity. Day of The Dead focuses more on the action and paranormal element of the movie, zombies,guns,death,explosions, all that. Paranormal activity focuses a lot more on the atmosphere in order to scare people, and obviously on the supernatural a lot too since the movie is about spirits. The movie only focuses a little bit on action, only at the parts where it scares the audience. In Frankenstein Mary Shelley uses all of these elements equally. Action for example, when the monster is running at Victor or when the monster kills anyone. Atmostphere when Victor describes his surroundings with great detail and Frankenstein has the supernatural element obviously because it is about a scientist who creates a monster.