Editing M. A. R. Barker (section)

==''Serpent's Walk'' and Holocaust denial==
Barker wrote a sixth novel, ''[[Serpent's Walk]]'', under the pseudonym Randolph D. Calverhall.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Horvath |first=Stu |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArKmEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22serpent%27s+walk%22+barker&pg=PR14 |title=Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-262-04822-4 |page=xiv |language=en |chapter=Introduction |access-date=January 22, 2025 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Randolph D. Calverhall is an allusion to one of Barker's ancestors, and the book is attributed to him in a library catalog.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Inloes |first=Amina |date=2018 |title=Muhammad Abd al-Rahman (Phillip) Barker: Bridging Cultural Divides through Fantasy/Science-Fiction Role-Playing Games and Fictional Religion |journal=[[The Muslim World]] |language=en |volume=108 |issue=3 |pages=387–418 |doi=10.1111/muwo.12225 |issn=1478-1913}}</ref> ''Serpent's Walk'' is a [[science fiction]] story,<ref name=":4" /> presenting an [[alternate history]] in which [[Schutzstaffel|SS soldiers]] begin an underground resistance after the end of [[World War II]]. A hundred years later, their descendants take over the United States of America.<ref name=":0" /> The book's protagonist becomes the {{Lang|de|Führer}} and worldwide dictator of the Fourth Reich.<ref name=":3" /> The book espouses the belief in an [[international Jewish conspiracy]],<ref name=":4" /> suggests the solution to the "[[Jewish question]]" is [[genocide]], and extensively quotes ''[[Mein Kampf]]''.<ref name=":3" /> The novel was published in 1991 by National Vanguard Books, the book publishing division of the neo-Nazi group the [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]], which published white supremacist and neo-Nazi material including ''[[The Turner Diaries]]''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Gomel |first=Elana |date=2000 |title=The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body |journal=Twentieth Century Literature |language=en |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=405–433 |doi=10.2307/827840 |issn=0041-462X |jstor=827840}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Gomel |first=Elana |date=December 2000 |title=Aliens Among Us: Fascism and Narrativity |journal=[[Journal of Narrative Theory]] |language=en |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=127–162 |doi=10.1353/jnt.2011.0005 |issn=1548-9248}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Berger |first=J.M. |author-link=J.M. Berger |date=2016 |title=The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism's Deadly Bible |journal=[[International Centre for Counter-Terrorism]] |location=The Hague |language=en |volume=7 |issue=8 |doi=10.19165/2016.1.11 |doi-access=free}}</ref> 

Between 1990 and 2002, Barker also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the ''[[Journal of Historical Review]]'', a journal that advocates [[Holocaust denial]] and revisionist [[pseudohistory]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2017 |title=Editorial Advisory Committee |url=https://vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518162602/http://vho.org:80/GB/Journals/JHR/index.html |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |website=[[The Journal of Historical Review]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Dowdy-YouthMusicAgency">{{cite thesis |last=de Araújo Magalhães |first=Luiz Paulo |title=Intelectuais de extrema-direita e o negacionismo do Holocausto: o caso do Institute for Historical Review (IHR) |date=2019 |access-date=March 22, 2022 |type=Post-graduate |publisher=Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro |url=https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/bitstream/jspui/5130/2/2019%20-%20Luiz%20Paulo%20de%20Ara%C3%BAjo%20Magalh%C3%A3es.pdf |page=78 |lang=pt-br |trans-title=Far-Right Intellectuals and Holocaust Denialism: The Case of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR)}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> In March 2022, the Tékumel Foundation confirmed Barker's authorship of ''Serpent's Walk'' and association with the ''Journal of Historical Review''. The Foundation repudiated Barker's views in the novel, from which it does not receive royalties, and apologized for not acknowledging its authorship earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-23 |title=The Tékumel Foundation's Board of Directors Statement on Serpent's Walk. |url=https://www.tekumelfoundation.org/post/the-tekumel-foundations-board-of-directors-statement-on-serpents-walk |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=Tékumel Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />