Founding members of the Fortean Society included Tiffany Thayer, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott, and many of New York's literati such as Dorothy Parker.
Other members included Vincent Gaddis, Ivan T. Sanderson, A. Merritt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Buckminster Fuller.
[1] The first six issues of the Fortean Society's newsletter, Doubt, were each edited by a different member, starting with Theodore Dreiser.
He particularly opposed civil defense, going to such lengths as encouraging readers to turn on their lights in defiance to air raid sirens.
[citation needed] The original magazine Doubt and society were not connected to the present-day magazine Fortean Times, created by a British Fortean and long-time correspondent to Paul Willis, Bob Rickard, who encouraged Willis to publish.