ABSTRACT
The stories, nevertheless, have their Faulkneresque point; even the accumulation of desperately groping and fretted words catches fire for a lurid moment in the most protracted of them, 'The Fire and the Hearth' and 'The Bear'. Perhaps the most impressive tale is 'Pantaloon in Black', in which a powerful young negro goes crazy at the death of his wife, cuts the throat ofa white man and dies a hideous and uncomprehending death.
