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:
“But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Opens its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)