Read the passage. [the] inconstant lover … found himself in the arms of the pale ghost of her whom he had deserted. … [the] sinful founder of his race … clothed like the ghost in hamlet, in complete armor … was seen at midnight, by the moon’s fitful beams, to advance slowly along the gloomy avenue. the shape was lost beneath the shadow of the castle walls … in mary shelley’s introduction to frankenstein, which characteristic of gothic literature is found in the ghost stories that she reads with her friends? whimsical elements and fantastic settings tragic characters and complicated plots heroic characters and engaging plots supernatural elements and mysterious settings