PulpFest is more than a dealers’ room filled with tens of thousands of collectible items from pulp magazines to first-edition hardcovers to original art and more.
Nor is it several evenings of fantastic presentations such as our look at “The Spider, Master of Men!” or “Conan the Multimedia Barbarian.”
PulpFest is people — readers, collectors, and dealers with a love for popular fiction and art. People who realize that the pulps had a profound impact on American popular culture. Thanks to all of you — dealers and members alike — PulpFest is still alive and kicking after 51 years.
Thanks to the generosity of our dealers, PulpFest will celebrate its 51st summertime convention with our third annual pizza party. Starting at 5 pm on Thursday, August 3, we’ll have cheese, pepperoni, and Margherita pizzas, baked to perfection in the hotel’s wood-fired ovens. The pizzas are on us, but the drinks are on you!
Thursday’s pizza will not only be a celebration of PulpFest‘s opening night, but it will also give us an opportunity to support our host hotel. Please come and enjoy a slice or two in the lounge, but be sure to support the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry by purchasing something to quench your thirst.
And be sure to support and thank the following dealers for their generous contributions to make our third annual PulpFest pizza night a tremendous success:
Adventure House, Chris and David Kalb of Age of Aces Books, Mark Alvarado, Books From the Crypt, Brenner’s Collectable Books, Brick Pickle Media, Henry G. Franke III for The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Christopher Paul Carey, Nick Certo, Ray Walsh of Curious Book Shop, Scott & Linda Edwards of Dearly Departed Books, Jennifer DiGiacomo, DreamHaven Books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Doug Ellis & Deb Fulton, Flinch! Books, Jim Emerson of Futures Past, George Hagenauer, Rick Hall, Heartwood Books & Art, Mark Hickman, Ed Hulse, Franz Kraljic, Craig McDonald, Bob McGeeney, John McMahan, Peter Macuga, Emanuel Maris, Tom Martin, Mary Nagy of Mechyu Publications, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, Phil Nelson, Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle of New Texture, Xene and TED Otting, Mike Parsons, Laurie Powers, ThePulp.Net, Garyn & Virginia Roberts, Rick Santman, David Saunders, Darrell Schweitzer, Tom Skemp, Steven Spilger, Debra Reynolds of Sunbury Press, Terry’s Comics, Tim’s Books, Anthony Tollin of Sanctum Books, and John Wooley.
To enjoy our dealers’ room (and pizza party), click the “Registration” button at the top of this page. And if you’re able — rooms are scarce — don’t forget to book a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. If you can’t find a room, the DoubleTree recommends the Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, or Home2 Suites. They’re all just a few miles away from our host hotel. Click here to learn more.
The PulpFest pizza party is strictly informal. So come as you are, although we’d prefer if you left your fangs and skull canes at home. Our featured image is by Matt Fox for the July 1946 Weird Tales.
Even Paul Ernst’s Doctor Satan offered up his spare change when PulpFest came asking for donations toward our third annual pizza night. So be sure to thank anyone you might see wearing a red mask and robe while you’re wandering around our dealers’ room. It just might be him. At least that’s the way Margaret Brundage portrayed the good doctor on the cover for the August 1935 issue of Weird Tales.
