PulpFest is no longer accepting advance registrations for our 2018 convention, taking place July 26 – 29. Why not register now and beat the rush? Don’t forget that you’ll save money and get free early-bird shopping if you book a room at the convention’s host hotel. By staying at the DoubleTree, you’ll help to defray the convention’s substantial costs and show our hotel that PulpFest will help their bottom line.
There are plenty of rooms available at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. You can book a room directly through the PulpFest website. Just below the PulpFest banner at the top of our home page, you’ll find a link that reads “Book a Room for 2018.” Click the link and you’ll be redirected to a secure site where you can place your reservation.
You can also reserve a room by calling 1-800-222-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest to receive the special convention rate of $129 plus tax per night. Included in the room rate are free Wi-Fi privileges in each sleeping room and two complimentary breakfasts per room for each day of your stay. Parking is free. You must book your room by July 4, 2018 in order to get the special convention rate.
For All Members
All PulpFest 2018 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)
Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25
Additional Details
Children age 15 and younger, accompanied by an adult, will be admitted for free. However, they must be registered.
An early-bird membership will get you into the dealers’ room from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM on Thursday, July 26. Only staff, dealers, and early-birds will be allowed into the dealers’ room during these hours. Please realize that due to travel conditions and other contingencies, PulpFest cannot guarantee that each and every registered dealer will be available during our early-bird hours. Our evening programming will start at 8:40 PM, following early-bird shopping.
If you register for a Sunday single-day membership, please be aware that many dealers will be packing up. Buying and selling opportunities may be limited.
All paying members, including supporting members, will receive a complementary copy of our program book, THE PULPSTER, a $13 value.
Early registration will be held outside the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry on Thursday evening, July 26, running from 4 PM to 8 PM, and on Friday morning, July 27, running from 9 AM to 10 AM. If you are paying at the door, please have your completed registration form on hand to speed up the process. You’ll be able to pay for your registration at the door using cash, check, or credit card.
Please click here to download our 2018 member registration form. To pay for your membership, please see the instructions below.
For Dealers Only
Island-table rental fee: $80 per table
Wall-table rental fee: $90 per table
All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase a membership to PulpFest 2018.
Additional Details
PulpFest 2018 will have over 100 six-foot tables in its 11,328-square-foot dealers’ room. Wall tables and placement within the dealers’ room will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Over forty wall tables will be available in our dealers’ room.
There will be no height restrictions on any tables. Displays will be allowed on tables as long as they can safely stand. Please use common sense and courtesy to design your displays. All members registering as dealers must have material for sale at their tables. If you have any special needs — positioning within the room, unique display requirements, electrical needs, and so on — please let us know when you register.
All registered dealers will be profiled in a series of posts that will run on the PulpFest website during the last week of June. Our marketing director, Mike Chomko, will be contacting you about this.
Although the focus of PulpFest 2018 will be pulp magazines and related materials, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies and serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books can also be sold. Please remember that PulpFest is not a comic book convention. Sexually explicit material, including PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE, and OUI, will not be allowed.
Dealer set-up will take place on Thursday, July 26 from 3:30 – 10:30 PM. Selling to early-bird shoppers will be allowed on July 26, beginning at 5:30 PM and running until 8:30 PM. The dealers’ room will be open to dealers on Friday, July 27, beginning at 9 AM. It will open to all PulpFest members beginning at 10 AM. All dealers are expected to be set up on Thursday evening by 10:30 PM and be open for business on Friday, July 27, at 10 AM. If you are not able to comply, please discuss your needs with convention chairperson Jack Cullers by emailing him at jack@pulpfest.com or writing him at the address noted below.
Please click here to download our 2018 dealer registration form. To pay for your dealer membership, please see the instructions below.
Payment Instructions
If you have any questions about member or dealer registrations, please write to Jack Cullers at one of the addresses noted below.
The deadline for advance registrations is Monday, 07/23/18 at 10 PM eastern time. To pay for your registration, please send your check or money order to David J. Cullers, 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305 or use our Paypal Order page. If you pay via Paypal, you’ll also have to register via email, providing all of the information required on our registration forms to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
To Learn More . . .
For additional details about PulpFest 2018, please explore our website. You can also check out a copy of our 2018 newsletter — which features a great deal of information about this year’s convention — by clicking here. If you’d like a copy mailed to you, please write to Jack Cullers at his address noted above.
(Designed by PulpFest’s artistic director, William Lampkin, our PulpFest 2018 post card features the work of artist Gertrude C. Orde. Her painting was originally used as the cover for the January 1932 number of Fawcett Publications’ BATTLE STORIES. It’s based on the poster art for the classic World War I film, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
The back of our PulpFest 2018 post card features the work of Mel Hunter. His painting was originally used as the cover for the May 1960 issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. The issue featured Philip José Farmer’s novella “Open to Me, My Sister.”)
