Register now for PulpFest 2026. You’ll beat the rush and save some bucks.
All PulpFest 2026 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.
Members who register in advance and book a room at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania, get the best deal.
The $40 cost gets you into all PulpFest 2026 events held during the convention. For those staying at the DoubleTree, it also includes free early-bird shopping, thanking you for your PulpFest support. If you pay at the door, the cost will be $50.
An early-bird membership will get you into the dealers’ room from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, July 30. Only staff, dealers, and early birds will be allowed into the dealers’ room during these hours.
Please realize that due to travel conditions and other contingencies, the convention cannot guarantee that every PulpFest dealer will be available during our early-bird hours.
For those members staying elsewhere, the cost is $50 without early-bird shopping and $80 with early-bird shopping.
Single-day memberships to PulpFest 2026 for Friday or Saturday are also available for $25 per day. Please note that single-day memberships are not available on Thursday, July 30. If you wish to participate in early-bird shopping, you must purchase a full membership to the convention.
Children aged 15 and younger, accompanied by an adult, will be admitted to PulpFest 2026 for free. However, they must be registered.
Supporting memberships for those unable to attend PulpFest 2026 are $30.
All paying members, including supporting members, will receive a complimentary copy of our program book, The Pulpster #35. Supporting members will receive their Pulpster by mail, postage paid.
Scheduled for July 30 – August 2, PulpFest will salute the centennials of Amazing Stories and Ghost Stories, as well as the sesquicentennial of the birth of Jack London, the popular writer and an early innovator in the science fiction genre.
And don’t forget, your PulpFest membership also makes you a member of Doc Con 2026, Farmercon XXI, and the first Shadow Con, a new mini-convention celebrating the “Master of Darkness.” That’s 4 conventions for the price of one! You can’t beat that deal!
Although we won’t have an ERBFest in 2026 — next summer’s Edgar Rice Burroughs Convention will take place June 26 – 28 in Raleigh, NC — we won’t forget about the “Master of Adventure.” Next year is the centennial of ERB Artist, Robert Kennedy Abbett’s birth.
A PulpFest 2026 membership means you’ll enjoy a great programming line-up and access to a tremendous dealers’ room filled with pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, first edition hardcovers, original art, series books, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest and slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials, old-time-radio shows, Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age comic books, and other collectibles. Plus memberships in 3 additional conventions!
We hope to see you July 30 – August 2 at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania, for PulpFest 2026. Sign up today!
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Ed Valigursky’s cover art for the January 1955 issue of Amazing Stories. The artist began working for Ziff-Davis — the publisher of Amazing — in 1952, eventually becoming the firm’s art director.
Our featured image is excerpted from George Rozen’s cover art for the August 1, 1933 number of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE, illustrating Walter B. Gibson’s lead story, “The Black Hush.”
We’ll be celebrating the “Dark Avenger” at the first Shadow Con, a mini-convention taking place at our 2026 PulpFest. You’ll be a part of Shadow fan history if you join PulpFest 2026 today.
You’ll also be part of the revived Doc Con, returning to PulpFest in 2026 for their 22nd gathering. For a taste of what’s in store for you at PulpFest 2026 and Doc Con 2026, please visit our YouTube Channel for Craig McDonald’s video on “Doc Savage: The Savage Art of 1938).
And if you’ve not done so already, join the nearly 1,000 pulp fans who’ve already subscribed to the PulpFest YouTube Channel.
