The Holy Terror is a 1939 work by H. G. Wells that is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. Which presents itself as a biography of a character Rudolf "Rud" Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that he is referred to as the "Holy Terror". Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism, and a group strategizing for world revolution. Who are looking to stage coup. The group contains a character inspired by Oswald Mosley. The revolution fails, revealing the cowardice underlying Rud's aggressiveness.
