"The Return of the Sorcerer" is a horror short story by American writer Clark Ashton Smith, first published in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror in September 1931.
It tells of one Mr. Ogden being hired by scholarly recluse John Carnby to translate passages from the Necronomicon.
In a review of the August Derleth anthology Sleep No More, New York Times reviewer Orvile Prescott commented that the story "skates perilously close to parody of its own genre" but "should upset even hardened stomachs.
[7] "The Return of the Sorcerer" was adapted as an episode of the television series Night Gallery starring Vincent Price (as John Carnby) and Bill Bixby (as Noel Evans in Mr. Ogden's role).
In April 2018, Cadabra Records released a vinyl LP[8] read by Anthony D.P.