Black Sun (Goodrick-Clarke book)

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity is a book by British historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. It was published by New York University Press in 2002. A successor to Goodrick-Clarke's 1985 book The Occult Roots of Nazism, which focused on the influence of occult movements on Nazi Germany, it examines post-war esoteric neo-Nazism with a particular focus on the Anglophone world.

It was originally intended as a sequel to The Occult Roots of Nazism, but in the course of writing it its scope expanded further. Among the topics covered are the histories of American and British neo-Nazism, various figures associated with neo-Nazism and esoteric neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi satanism, neo-Nazi music, and belief in Nazi UFOs and other conspiracies. The book takes its name from the esoteric neo-Nazi Black Sun idea, which Goodrick-Clarke notes was later identified with a particular Nazi design.

Goodrick-Clarke draws a parallel between the conditions in early 20th century Austria, which had formed the racist occultist movement Ariosophy that influenced Nazism, that he profiled in his first book, to the conditions in the West that formed the modern fringe neo-Nazi movements. Black Sun received praise for its research, writing style, and the amount of information it provided on its subject matter. Discussing the book in 2024, scholar Arthur Versluis described it as a seminal work on the subject.