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Some clues as to the religious and organizational coordinates of this perspective are provided by the racist publications of the Wotansfolk movement. The pseudonymously authored Hear the Cradle Song (1993), by “OT Gunnarsson”, is a racist insurrection novel set in Los Angeles, written from a white supremacist and Odinist perspective, which advocates a religiously buttressed fascist regime. Covington’s novels and his Northwestern Front are the inspiration behind terrorist organization The Base (2013–2021) ( Ware 2019 Wilson 2020), but Covington is also the writer of the occult novels The Black Flame (2001) and The Stars in their Path (2002), which present Christian Identitarian mysticism. Harold Covington was the author of the “Northwestern Quintet”, a dystopian fiction involving Pacific-Northwestern secession and supremacism, whose most important volume, The Brigade, is strongly indebted to The Turner Diaries ( Michael 2014). He was also the founder of Cosmotheism, a mystically inflected Darwinian pantheism of the White supremacist variety, and its Cosmotheist Church, and a leader of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi political party ( Whitsel 1998). Under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, Pierce was the author of the novels The Turner Diaries (1978), which directly inspired neo-Nazi terrorist group The Order (1983–1984) and also the Oklahoma bombing (1995), and Hunter (1984), which contributed to the mass murders by Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant ( Berger 2020). Gunnarsson (unknown) and the Californian Odinist movement. In this article, I explore the fiction and beliefs of William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), Harold Covington (1953–2018), O. What is most striking about some of its most important instances is the extent to which it is a literary and religious and not just a political phenomenon. After the spike in rightwing authoritarian domestic terrorism and social mobilization over the last few years, researchers who are concerned about democracy and toleration can no longer afford to ignore this phenomenon. Once an emergent phenomenon attended to by specialist researchers, the continued influence of these figures and their works has now become important to politics in the USA. Capable of evading censorship and avoiding prosecution, these fictions belong to a moment in fascist strategy of “leaderless resistance.” Here, influential ideologues script terrorist organizations and movement activation from the legally protected distance of their roles as literary authors, magazine editors and religious prophets. This sort of didactic fiction is written in the realist mode and grinds through increasingly plausible scenarios for neo-Nazi terrorism, guerilla insurgency, high-intensity racial warfare and fascist dictatorship. Combining elements of all three, fascist literature today presents dystopian future scenarios that lead through civil war to the foundation of white supremacist states. In contemporary fascist propaganda, the novel has replaced the political manifesto, the military manual and proselytizing testimony. The dystopian fictions of fascist literature present civil war scenarios whose white nationalist and genocidal outcome is the result of what are, strictly speaking, supremacist death cults. These are twofold: (1) the sacralization of violence and (2) the sanctification of elites. I propose that what this literature shows is that the doctrinal differences between the three main strands of neo-Nazi religion-Cosmotheism, Christian Identity and Odinism-are less significant than their common ideological functions. Finally, I look at OT Gunnarsson’s Hear the Cradle Song, reading this together with discussions of racism in Californian Odinism. Then, I turn to Harold Covington’s Northwestern Quintet with The Brigade, reading this with Christian Identity and his own conception of Nazi religious tolerance. I read William Luther Pierce’s Turner Diaries and Hunter together with his text on speculative metaphysics and religious belief, Cosmotheism. The reason that I do this is because in contemporary fascism, the novel has replaced the political manifesto, the military manual and proselytizing testimony, since fiction can evade censorship and avoid prosecution. In this article, I investigate the literary representation of the religious convictions and political strategy of neo-Nazi ideologues who are influential in rightwing authoritarian movements in the USA today.