The stylistic characteristics of the novel “House of Ghosts” and “The Myth of Naddah” by Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq

The two novels “House of Ghosts” and “Ostourah Al-Naddaha” from the “Supernatural” series by the Egyptian writer Ahmed Khaled Tawfik are the most famous and popular works of horror and fantasy among children and adolescents, where readers pay special attention to them in the eighties and nineties of the last century. This study aims to shed light on the study of the language component in these two novels on three levels: linguistic, grammatical, and rhetorical, in order to determine its basic features. The presence of verbs that indicate movement, the use of words that indicate ambiguity and doubt, the repetition of short and simple sentences, the lengthening of letters at the end of words, description, image, quotation and inclusion are the most important linguistic features in these two novels. The analysis of these features shows that their artistic employment in the context of the two novels has been successful, consistent with the elements of the story such as the subject, content, characters, space, etc., and it has a positive impact on the two novels.