Since August 2023, we’ve had an announcement about PulpFest once a week. Starting today, we’ll release a post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We’ll maintain that pace until the beginning of July. After that, we’ll have 5 posts a week — Monday through Friday — until the conclusion of PulpFest 2023 on August 4.
In the weeks ahead, we’ll preview summer’s convention scene and celebrate the 150th birthday of legendary Black Mask editor Joseph T. Shaw. And on May 10, we will begin to preview the programming planned for PulpFest 2024. The convention will celebrate “Spice, Spies, Shaw, and More.” Later in the year, we’ll profile all the dealers who plan to exhibit at this year’s PulpFest.
If you hope to sell at the 2024 PulpFest, be advised to register as soon as possible. We’re already sold out of wall tables.
But don’t forget that at PulpFest you’ll be enjoying three conventions for the price of one. Joining us will be FarmerCon XIX, celebrating the life and times of Philip José Farmer, and ErbFest 2024, saluting the centennial of the first book publication of Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot and the fiftieth anniversary of the movie of the same title. It’s all part of our third celebration of the Master of Adventure, ERBFest 2024.
PulpFest 2024 will take place August 1 – 4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. You can register for the convention by clicking our “registration” button at the top of the page to be part of “Summer’s Amazing Pulp Con.”
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, click the “Book a Room” button or call 1-855-610-8755. To receive the special convention rate of $136 plus tax per night, you must mention that you are a PulpFest attendee or use the code CDT91J. By staying at the DoubleTree, you’ll help to ensure the convention’s success. We urge every member to book a hotel room for PulpFest 2024 as soon as possible.
Our PulpFest postcard was adapted by William Lampkin from J. Allen St. John’s cover art for the January 1949 issue of Amazing Stories, illustrating Arthur Petticolas’ “Dinosaur Destroyer.” The author’s name may be a pseudonym, but there is a family of Petticolas in Virginia. There were several artists in the family, as well as an Arthur. He went into psychology in the 1800s and died by suicide long before this story was published. There are still Petticolas around the state.
Our featured image is excerpted from St. John’s dust jacket art for the first book edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot. First released in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1924, Burroughs’ trilogy concerns a land where creatures long extinct still survive. We’ll be saluting the book’s centennial and more as part of our third ERBFest, a summertime gathering for the fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The image is based on an archival quality giclée art print produced by Phil Normand’s Recoverings.
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began contributing to our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone. Many thanks to Ms. Silberberg for her contributions to pulpfest.com.
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