The Ghoul's Portrait

"The Ghoul's Portrait" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Joshua Reynolds. It was published in the Matthew Carpenter-edited anthology Pickman's Gallery by Ulthar Press in 2018.
== Synopsis ==
When a talented thief steals a portrait of the god Mordiggian, its priests dispatch Amina Algol, a woman raised with ghouls, and her adoptive siblings Arif and Bera to retrieve the piece. Tracking the thief to the home of a powerful sorcerer, the three learn that the man had been forced into the act by the evil magician who wishes to bind the will of the god to his own.
Attempting to re-acquire the stolen work, the group confront the sorcerer, but he proves too powerful. Fortunately, a gift supplied to Amina by their god to aid in the task proves more than capable of dispatching the man, and his soul is sucked into a painting by the talented artist King Richard, from where it can be dealt with at Mordiggian's leisure.
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