Since early last August, we’ve run an announcement about PulpFest once a week. Starting today, we’ll release a post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We’ll maintain that pace until the last Monday in June. After that, we’ll have 5 posts a week — Monday through Friday — until the conclusion of PulpFest 2026 on August 2.
In the days ahead, we’ll preview summer’s convention scene and more. On May 8, our programming previews for PulpFest 2026 will begin. The convention will be celebrating the centennials of Amazing Stories and Ghost Stories, the centennial of artist Robert K. Abbett’s birth, and more.
And don’t forget that you’ll enjoy four conventions for the price of one at PulpFest. Joining us will be Doc Con 2026, the convention for the “Fans of Bronze;” FarmerCon XXI, celebrating the life and times of Philip José Farmer; and the first gathering of The Shadow Con, saluting Walter B. Gibson’s groundbreaking pulp hero, The Shadow.
You can’t beat 4 conventions for one price, especially if you’re a fan of Doc, Farmer, The Shadow, and pulps! We hope you’ll join us from July 30 to August 2, 2026, in Mars, Pennsylvania, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. You can register for the convention by clicking the “registration” link on our website.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, click the “Book a Room” link or call 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733. To receive the “Last Chance” convention rate of $149 plus tax per night, you must ask to be added to the PulpFest Last Chance block or use the code CDT90C. We urge every member to book a hotel room for PulpFest 2026 as soon as possible. They’re quickly disappearing. Click here to learn more.
If you’re interested in selling at PulpFest, all of our wall tables have been reserved. There are a few island tables and tables in the foyer, leading up to the entrance to our dealers’ room. Both island and foyer tables are available for $110 each. Please click the “registration” link on our website to learn how to join the convention as a dealer.
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Our featured image is excerpted from Alex Schomburg’s original cover art for the August 1965 issue of Amazing Stories. Born in Puerto Rico on May 10, 1905, Schomburg moved to New York City in the early twenties to find work as a commercial artist.
In 1925, Schomburg met publisher Hugo Gernsback, about a year before the publisher launched the first specialized science-fiction magazine. Sixty years later, the artist’s last Amazing Stories cover appeared on the January 1985 number of the magazine. Alex Schomburg died in 1998.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from the June 1927 issue of Ghost Stories, published by Bernarr Macfadden. The cover artist is not known.
Leslie Silberberg is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began posting on our website in 2022. She enjoys the science fiction pulps, particularly the work of such leading female writers as Leigh Brackett, Claire Winger Harris, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, C. L. Moore, Margaret St. Clair, Wilmar H. Shiras, Francis Stevens, and Leslie F. Stone (with whom she shares a name).
