PulpFest 2025 ended on August 10, but you can relive our latest gathering through the reports and recordings that have been posted online.
If you couldn’t make PulpFest this year, you missed a fantastic weekend of pop culture programming, buying and selling vintage collectibles and original art, and much more.
Hopefully, the links listed below will encourage you to make the trip to Mars, Pennsylvania, in 2026 for next year’s PulpFest. We’ll be back at the DoubleTree from July 30 – August 2 for PulpFest 2026.
Read All About It!
- Lewis Forro, posting as “The Leader,” always takes a creative approach to his convention coverage on his blog, The Leader’s Chronicles, and his review of PulpFest 2025 is no exception.
- Mike Glyer has posted about this year’s Munsey Award winner, John DeWalt, and Rusty Award winner, Ray Walsh, on his award-winning File 770 blog.
- Michael R. Brown, who writes The Pulp Super-Fan blog at ThePulp.Net, recounts his third visit to PulpFest in Con Report: PulpFest 2025.
- Anthony R. Cardno offers his Top Ten(ish) Moments From PulpFest 2025, as well as FarmerCon XX, ERBFest 2025, and Doc Con 2025, on his blog, Semi-Colon.
- Martin Walker offers this year’s report on PulpFest 2025 at Mystery*File.
- Bill Lampkin of ThePulp.Net — and others — posted photos from PulpFest to ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed during the convention. You can also view his photos on his blog, Yellowed Perils.
- Various folks were posting photos to Instagram using #pulpfest2025. Follow the link to see the gallery of pictures from PulpFest 2025 (as well as a few random images).
For Your Viewing and Listening Pleasure . . .
The first several links in this section come from a variety of YouTube vloggers who attended (many for the first time) PulpFest 2025.
- Allan Liska of Green Archer Comics, which was one of the dealers at PulpFest, shares his Thoughts on PulpFest 2025 on the company’s YouTube channel.
- Nick Anderson of The Book Graveyard tours PulpFest 2025, offers his thoughts on the con, and shows off his book haul in Tour, Haul, and Shenanigans.
- Rock and Roxie Savage of the Savage Film Group are joined by Frank Vassallo at PulpFest 2025 where they tour the dealers’ room and show off their purchases.
- Paul Harmon from Geeks Love Dogs shows off his PulpFest bounty in this 50-minute video.
- Nathanael Hummel and L.S. Goozdich of Veritas Entertainment recap their visit to PulpFest 2025 in their Men’s Adventure Fiction Podcast.
- Tim and Tim Sr. of Secret Fire Books posted a three-part series on their Adventures at PulpFest 2025. Their report continues with part 2 and part 3. Once home, Tim posted his PulpFest book haul video.
- Bryan Raines at Bad Taste Books recaps his PulpFest Pulp Magazine Haul. His previous video showcased his PulpFest Book Haul.
- Jake from Pulp Mortem offers a PulpFest 2025 Recap and Book Haul report.
- The Elusive Exclusive Book Society went live from PulpFest 2025 in an hour-and-a-half live stream from Saturday night, hosted by the Pulp Mortem channel with guests from Geeks Love Dogs, Bad Taste Books, The Book Graveyard, and Secret Fire Books.
- Sean CW Korsgaard has posted videos of five panels from PulpFest 2025: Tarzan the Time Traveler and Discourses on Doc, and The Masters of Tarzan Illustration, Doc Savage and the Bantam Revival, Rafael Sabatini: Master of Blood and Thunder, and Masters of Men’s Adventure Magazines.
- ThePulp.Net posted video of a PulpFest 2025 Dealers’ Room Walkthrough.
- In addition, ThePulp.Net’s Pulp Tales podcast has 14 presentations (over 10 hours) from PulpFest 2025 for your listening pleasure. They are also available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Castbox.fm, and YouTube Music.
- On the PulpFest YouTube channel, Make Your Plans for PulpFest 2026! is not only a preview of next year’s convention but a video look at the many delights that PulpFest has to offer. While you’re there, be sure to subscribe.
- Also on YouTube, our video director, Craig McDonald, has posted the first two episodes of Talking Pulp — a portrait of artist Douglas C. Klauba and an interview with Ron Hill concerning his documentary We Are Doc Savage. Both were shot during PulpFest 2024.
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Spice Up Your Wardrobe with a PulpFest T-Shirt!
If you were not able to attend the convention, or were too late before your size sold out, you can purchase a PulpFest t-shirt courtesy of Nick Anderson of Streetlight Printing. Simply click the T-shirts link at the top of our homepage. The shirts were one of many hits at this year’s convention.
What about Next Year?
Although PulpFest 2025 may be over, there’s plenty of time to plan to attend our 2026 gathering. The convention returns to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pittsburgh, from Thursday, July 30, through Sunday, August 2. We’ll also have early dealer set-up on Wednesday evening, July 29, beginning at 7 pm.
We’ll be celebrating the centennials of Amazing Stories and Ghost Stories. We’ll also welcome back Doc Con and Farmercon, and introduce Shadow Con, a brand new convention dedicated to the first Pulp Hero. We’ll have programming from all of our associated conventions, as well as presentations on Edgar Rice Burroughs and more. We hope you’ll join us at the DoubleTree for PulpFest 2026.
We’ll be releasing our planned programming schedule on December 15.
Visit our YouTube Channel for a look at what PulpFest 2026 has in store for you, featuring a video review of our 2025 convention.
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Our featured image is excerpted from Wesley Neff’s cover art for the November 1939 issue of Adventure, published by Popular Publications. The top cover artist of Ken Magazine, a sophisticated offshoot of Esquire Magazine, Neff also painted covers for pulp magazines.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Rudoph Zirm’s cover for the February 1935 issue of Doctor Death. We celebrated the Great Pulp Villains and more at our 2025 PulpFest.
