PulpFest

Advance Registrations Are Ending

PulpFest 2025 will stop accepting advance registrations on Sunday, August 3, at 10 pm Eastern Time. We will shut down our PulpFest PayPal page at that time.

A full-weekend advance membership to PulpFest 2025 will cost you $40 — if staying at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry — and $50 if staying elsewhere. If you’d like to take part in our early-bird shopping in the dealers’ room from 9 am to 4:45 pm on Thursday, August 7, it’s free if you’re staying at our host hotel. That’s how we thank loyal attendees who help to defray the convention’s costs by staying at our host hotel. It will cost an additional $30 if you are staying elsewhere.

For those of you who prefer not to register in advance, you will be able to do so at the door.

A full weekend membership to PulpFest 2025 will cost $50 at the door. Early-bird memberships for those not staying at the DoubleTree will cost an additional $30.

Daily memberships for Friday or Saturday will also be available for $25 per day. Sunday single-day memberships are not available, as many of our dealers generally begin to pack up on Sunday morning, making buying opportunities limited.

All members — dealers included — will be able to register for the convention from 8 am to 4:45 pm on Thursday, August 7. Our registration desk will be at the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree.

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.

You will also be able to register for the convention at our front desk during our daytime hours on Friday or Saturday.

Our registration desk will be open throughout the convention during our dealers’ room hours. You’ll find our hours by clicking the 2025 schedule button on our website. Or click here to link to our 2025 mobile schedule.

Your PulpFest membership allows entry to all convention activities, including our daytime and evening programming, auction, and dealers’ room. A full membership covers the entire convention, running from August 7 – 10.

Children, accompanied by a parent, who are fifteen and younger, will be admitted free of charge to PulpFest 2025. However, they must be registered for the convention and in the company of a parent.

The general public is very much welcome to attend our programming free of charge. However, to enter our dealers’ room, you must be registered for the convention.

Members of the general public will also be able to attend our auction on Saturday evening, August 9. However, if non-members wish to bid, it will cost $5 for a badge to bid during the auction.

You can register to bid in our auction at our front desk during our daytime hours on Friday or Saturday, and just before the auction on Saturday evening.

We look forward to seeing you at PulpFest 2025. Remember that your PulpFest membership also includes membership in Doc Con XXI, ERBFest 2025, and FarmerCon XX. That’s four conventions for the one price!

For more details about registering, please click the registration button on our website.

Don’t fight the crowd by waiting to register at the door. No need to take up your sword as Peter Stevens’ swashbuckler has done on the cover for the January 1950 issue of Adventure, published by Popular Publications.

In addition to beat the rush, you’ll also save money! Be like Paul Ernst’s “Doctor Satan” in Margaret Brundage’s cover for the August 1935 issue of Weird Tales, adapted by William Lampkin, and count your savings by registering in advance.

Perhaps you’ll have plenty of change to spare and be able to splurge on a PulpFest t-shirt. They’ll be available at the PulpFest registration desk in a variety of sizes. Your choice of black or royal blue with the PulpFest logo across the chest. Click the link in our top menu to learn more.

PulpFest Returns to Pittsburgh!

PulpFest 2026 will begin Thursday, July 30, and run through Sunday, August 2. It will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Please join us for a salute to "A Century of Amazing Stories" and much more at PulpFest 2026.

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