PulpFest 2024 will officially begin today at 9 am, as the rest of our dealers erect their displays for this year’s pulp con! The dealers’ room will be open for exhibitors to set up until 4:45 pm. We urge all of our dealers to take advantage of our generous load-in and set-up time.
Access to the dealers’ room for unloading will be through the ballroom back entrance and the nearby banquet dock. Click here for a map showing the loading area of the hotel and here for a map of the DoubleTree’s Grand Ballroom.
If you need additional help getting to the hotel and/or the loading area, please call or text Jack Cullers at 937.671.1574.
There is ample free parking surrounding our host hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. The hotel is very conveniently located at the intersection of three major roadways in Cranberry Township. It’s just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate-79. The address is 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, Pennsylvania. We have a map on our website or click here for a link to a large map of the area.
All members — dealers included — will be able to register for the convention from 9 am to 4:45 pm. Registration will take place at the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Watch for our welcome banner.
Everyone can pick up their registration packets at this time. To help things move smoothly, please bring along a completed registration form. You can download a copy by clicking here or through the link found on our registration page. Paper forms will also be available at the door.
A full weekend membership to PulpFest 2024 will cost $50 at the door for those who have not registered in advance. Although there is no daily membership available for Thursday, August 1, daily memberships for Friday or Saturday will be available for $25 per day. Your PulpFest membership also entitles you to membership in both FarmerCon XIX and ERBFest 2024.
There will be free early-bird shopping today in the dealers’ room from 9 am to 4:45 pm for loyal attendees who help to defray the convention’s costs by staying at our host hotel. The cost is $80 for those who stay elsewhere. This price includes a full weekend membership to PulpFest 2024.
Although the focus of PulpFest is pulp magazines and related materials, digests, vintage paperbacks, contemporary genre fiction and pulp reprints, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first-edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books, as well as pulp-related comic books and games, are also allowed.
Our daily auction preview will run from 3:30 – 4:45 PM. We’ll be selling about 240 lots of material from the estate of the late Charles Danowski and 60 lots consigned by members of the convention. The auction will take place on Saturday, August 3, beginning at 9 pm. The general public is welcome to attend and bid. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
Following today’s early-bird shopping, pizza will be served in the Ember & Vine lounge of the DoubleTree. Thanks to the generosity of our dealers, PulpFest will celebrate the convention’s return with pizza at 5 pm today. All PulpFest attendees are invited to have a slice or two.
Our full evening programming slate will begin at 6:55 pm, beginning with Black Mask: The Early Years, featuring Lamont Award winners Walker Martin & Ed Hulse. And don’t forget about Chairman Jack Cullers’ annual “Welcome to PulpFest” address at 6:50 pm.
The Land That Time Forgot — the first of two Kevin Connor films that we’ll be showing at this year’s ERBFest — will close our Thursday evening programming.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Friday, August 2, below. You can also access our schedule via our homepage by clicking the schedule button on our home page or via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting pulpfest.com/schedule/. Each event on the schedule is linked to a post that provides further information on that event. Just click on the event’s title.
Watch for the “panels” banner to find our programming area at the convention. The general public is welcome to attend our programming, free of charge.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for PulpFest 2024, you can try calling 724-776-6900 to reach the DoubleTree. Although the convention rate is no longer available, there may be some vacancies at the hotel. Other options include 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.
Our lead image was adapted by PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin (who also designed our ERBFest and PulpFest logos) from Modest Stein’s cover for the April 4, 1914 issue of All-Story Weekly, illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs’ story, “At the Earth’s Core.” Tonight, we’ll be celebrating “The Women of Edgar Rice Burroughs” as part of this year’s ERBFest.
Our featured image was excerpted from George Rozen’s cover art for the August 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine, featuring Walter B. Gibson’s “The Man from Scotland Yard.” Join us tonight for “Cloaks & Daggers — Spy Heroes of the Pulps,” featuring Tim King, a career investigator for the Department of Defense and US Intelligence Services.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Dealers’ Room
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Dealers’ Room Open for Set-Up & Early-Bird Shopping
Auction Preview
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm — Auction Preview (in Willow & Walnut Rooms)
Hotel Lounge
4:55 pm – 6:45 pm — Pizza at PulpFest (sponsored by PulpFest’s Generous Dealers)
Evening Programming
6:50 pm – 6:55 pm — Welcome to PulpFest — Remarks from Chairman Jack Cullers
6:55 pm – 7:40 pm — Black Mask: The Early Years (Walker Martin & Ed Hulse)
7:45 pm – 8:30 pm — Under Covers — The Spicy Detectives (Will Murray & John Wooley)
8:35 pm – 9:20 pm — Cloaks & Daggers — Spy Heroes of the Pulps (Tim King)
9:25 pm – 10:10 pm — The Spicy Artists (David Saunders)
10:15 pm – 11:00 pm — ERBFest — The Women of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Bernice Jones & Cathy Wilbanks)
11:05 pm – 12:40 am — ERBFest Film Showing — The Land That Time Forgot
11:05 pm – ?? am — Palaver at PulpFest — Socialize at Ember & Vine
