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:
“These days of disinheritance, we feast
On human heads. True, birds rebuild
Old nests and there is blue in the woods.
The church bells clap one night in the week.
But that’s all done. It is what used to be....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“My doom and my strength is to be solitary.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)