Bells of Doom is the seventy-fourth pulp novel featuring The Shadow. Written by Walter B. Gibson, it was submitted for publication under the same name on February 2, 1934, and published in the March 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
- Plot: The story begins on an ocean liner and soon brings readers to a small town that is home to a belltower. The rest of the book deals with a series of murders committed in the town that are announced by the ringing of bells.
Famous quotes containing the words bells and/or doom:
“O he did whistle and she did sing,
And all the bells on earth did ring
For joy our Saviour Christ was born
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“My doom and my strength is to be solitary.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)