The Doomsday Bells — Miriam Lynch

A weird cult that fed on hatred and a house where time stood still made Claudia a prisoner of evil

PRISONER OF VENGEANCE

JOURNEY INTO STRANGENESS


Fog-shrouded statues, an old, ugly house of cold, barren rooms and endless corridors. The soul-chilling bells that seemed to clang from nowhere. And the aura of total evil that hung like a pall over the strange cult that called itself the Congregation of Retribution. As soon as she arrived at the bedside of her dying aunt, Claudia Creighton knew that she had already come into a weird inheritance--an inheritance of mystery and unspeakable evil.

These were the things Claudia found at the end of her journey--a journey made in answer to a desperate cry for help.

Claudia left her nurse's job in Chicago when the telegram came. It was a terse message from Dr. Luke Sheldon, telling her that Aunt Esther, her only surviving relative, lay dying. She knew that she would inherit the estate, but that was unimportant: all she wanted was to lend whatever aid she could. But as soon as she arrived, she knew that she had already come into a weird inheritance: an inheritance of mystery and evil...