The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

"Pantaloon in Black" first appeared in Harper's Magazine in October of 1940, earning Faulkner $400 for his efforts, and it reappeared as one of seven stories in Go Down, Moses in 1942. "Pantaloon" is unique in that, of the eight previously-published stories Faulkner used for Go Down, Moses, he made almost no changes to the magazine version of Rider's story when preparing to include it in the novel.