"The Soul of the Devil-Bought"

by Robert M. Price
originally published Cthulhu Cultus #5, 1996

Dr. Anton Zarnak, and his houseboy, Singh, are summoned by Jacob Maitland to the Sanbourne Institute.  

It seems that Maitland not long ago paid a visit to Winfield Phillips (c.f. "The Winfield Heritance") in order to attemp to buy the rest of his inherited occult library.  He finds Phillips with a new roomate, a Native American named E-choc-taqus, and in pretty bad shape.  He is unwilling to sell the collection, and, in fact, wants the rest of it, already donated to the Institute, back.

Zarnak knows the rest.  He, Maitland and Singh trek out to Winfield's pad, and enter the underground chambers through a secret entrance in the graveyard nearby.  There, a yugg leads them to a confrontation with Hiram Stokely, Winfield's deceased relative who, it seems, had in fact taken over Winfield's bod.  Much mayhem ensues but Zarnak saves the day.

After some decent build-up, this quickly descends into some pretty minor pulp territory.  Fun but inconsequential.