The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire is a 1907 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr.

[1] John Graham, a Confederate veteran and dispossessed planter, serves as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.

[2] As black power has been curtailed, the Grand Wizard orders Graham to have one last march through town and finally discontinue their activities.

[2] Two weeks later Graham's rival, Steve Hoyle, starts a new Ku Klux Klan.

[2] Andrew Warnes, a Reader in American Studies at Leeds University in England, suggested the depictions of the mob mentality of the Ku Klux Klan in Richard Wright's novels were influenced by The Traitor.