This article examines the engagement of far-right militants with dystopian literature, focusing on Jean Raspail’s Le Camp des Saints and William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries in the Italian context. Based on qualitative correspondence with 16 militants, it analyses how these texts are interpreted, valorised and deployed as instruments of ideological formation, political imagination and affective investment. Findings reveal a marked ideological split: a radical Westernist majority treats Raspail’s novel as quasi-prophetic, reinforcing narratives of Western decline and migratory threat, while an anti-Western minority reads Pierce’s work as a revolutionary blueprint anticipating systemic collapse in the United States. The article shows that dystopian narratives function less as literary artefacts than as active tools shaping political worldviews, legitimising ideological commitments, and negotiating geopolitical orientations. By centring militants’ own readings, the study offers empirically grounded insight into far-right reception practices and underscores the methodological value of ethically sensitive research with politically radicalised actors.