PulpFest 2025 will officially begin tomorrow. Dealers who arrive today will be able to set up their displays from 7 to 9 pm. The time is intended for setup alone. There will be absolutely no buying, selling, or trading permitted during set-up time. If any dealer or dealer’s helper is observed buying, selling, or trading, that person will have to leave the dealers’ room immediately.
Access to the dealers’ room for unloading and loading purposes will be through the ballroom’s rear 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.
Dealer setup will continue on Thursday, August 7, from 8 – 9 am. Registration for all members will also start at this time in the foyer outside the dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
The dealers’ room will open for early-bird shopping at 9 pm on Thursday, August 7. Early-bird shopping will continue until 4:45 pm for PulpFest members who will be staying at the DoubleTree or for those who elect to purchase an early-bird membership if staying elsewhere.
If you have not yet booked a room for your stay, please call 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733 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 less than two miles away from our host hotel. Click here to learn more.
If anyone is looking for a room, we may be able to put you in touch with someone in need of a roommate. Please see our registration staff at the hotel.
The DoubleTree 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.
Thanks so much to everyone who has reserved a room at our host hotel. By staying at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, you’ve helped to ensure the convention’s success.
Our full slate of programming for Thursday evening will get underway at 6:50 pm. The general public is welcome to attend our evening programming. Click the 2025 Schedule button to learn more about our great programming or click here to link to our 2025 mobile schedule. To learn more about a particular programming event, click on its title link.
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!
Please travel safely to summer’s pulp con.
Travel safely and take your time. Getting to PulpFest doesn’t depend on who gets to the top of the heap! You don’t want to wind up like the big guy in our featured image, excerpted from a 1933 movie poster for King Kong, released by RKO Pictures and based on an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. The artist is not known.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Walter Baumhofer’s cover for the April 1935 issue of Doc Savage Magazine, illustrating Lester Dent’s “The Spook Legion.”
We’ll be celebrating Edgar Wallace, Doc Savage, and more at this year’s PulpFest. We hope you’ll join us from August 7 – 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania for “The Masters of Blood and Thunder and More!“ at PulpFest 2025.
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