PulpFest is a top venue for writers and publishers to roll out their newest titles. Below, you’ll read about some of the books that will be appearing for the first time at this summer’s pulp con.
Charles F. Millhouse is an award-winning writer and publisher. With over 60 books & short stories to his name in the realms of science fiction and pulp adventure, his imagination knows no bounds. He’ll have a pair of new books at PulpFest 2026. The Classic Adventures of Captain Hawklin collects ten pulse-pounding short stories by Charles, the creator of the Hawklin series. He’ll also be debuting Stormgate, in which Millhouse brings together the unforgettable heroes, rogues, and adventurers from the Hawklin universe for one explosive, world-shattering event. To learn more about Charles and his work, visit StormGate Press or reach out to Charles at stormgatepress@gmail.com.
Brian K. Morris has been a freelance writer for over twenty years. A frequent guest at comic and book shows throughout the Midwest, he’s also an independent publisher, award-winning playwright, occasional actor, YouTuber, and a former mortician’s assistant. His books include The Original Skyman Battles the Master of Steam — which has been compared to Doc Savage — Santastein, The Terrors, and Vulcana: Rebirth of the Champion. You’ll also find his work in Shudder Stories, published by Becky Books, and other anthologies. Visit Rising Tide Publications to learn more about Brian’s entertaining books.
Lamont Award winner Ed Hulse of Murania Press is the editor and publisher of the much-admired journal, Blood ‘n’ Thunder, and many other publications. He’ll have the 2026 edition of BNT at this year’s PulpFest, plus copies of the latest edition of his classic The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, and the latest edition of Bookery’s Guide to Pulps & Related Magazines.
The author of over seventy novels and assorted books — including The All-New Wild Adventures of Doc Savage and other popular series — Will Murray will have copies of his latest book, Secret Agent X vs. Doctor Death. Thought to be dead, the clinically insane super-scientist and occultist, Doctor Death, returns to throw civilization into a new Dark Age. Rising to meet the challenge is the Man of a Thousand Faces, known yet unknown as Secret Agent X. Can the Ace hero defeat the master of zombies, elementals, and more dire creatures? Or must he seek out allies as mysterious as he?
Wyatt Doyle co-edits The Men’s Adventure Library book series with Bob Deis. Their books collect classic stories and artwork from the men’s adventure magazines published from the 1950s through the 1970s. At PulpFest 2026, Wyatt will be offering the deluxe, full-color hardcover edition of Gil Cohen: Inside/Out, the first part of a historic, four-volume series showcasing the artist’s men’s adventure magazine covers and interior illustrations. For more information, please visit Bob’s Men’s Adventure Magazines blog at MensPulpMags.com or the New Texture website.
Editor-in-Chief Joe Nelson of Point of Impact Publishing returns to PulpFest with more new action/adventure fiction in the vein of the classic Executioner, Destroyer, and Death Merchant series. Inspired by the short pulp novels you could buy on drugstore spinner racks, Joe will be offering the latest volumes in the Frenzi and The Bartender action series by R. J. Calder, and the Parker-inspired John Lash series by Clint Reno.
Although Alan J. Porter has over 40 fiction and non-fiction book publishing credits and hundreds of magazine articles to his credit, this will be his first foray to PulpFest. Alan has written original adventures featuring classic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Houdini, The Musketeers, Wild Bill Hickok, Gideon Cain, and private eye Rick Ruby; as well as his own “New Pulp” adventurers, The Raven and The Lotus Ronin. A full bibliography of his work can be found here.
Returning to Pulpfest for his second year, Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 will have the lastest issues of Men’s Adventure Quarterly at the convention. If you’re a fan of cryptozoology, you’ll love the 14th issue of the magazine that Bill publishes with Bob Deis of the Men’s Adventure Magazines blog at MensPulpMags.com. The focus is Bigfoot and his cryptozoological relatives, the Big Muddy Monster, Africa’s Man-Beast, and the Minnesota Iceman. Following close behind is issue 15, a science fiction special. To learn more about Bill and his work, please visit www.pulp2ohpress.com.
Thanks to Bill Cunningham and his MAQ co-editor, Bob Deis, every PulpFest member will receive an 8-page tabloid featuring a sci-fi story from the men’s adventure magazines. Bill Becker’s “We Died Like Flies on the Beach-Heads of Space” originally appeared in the October 1958 issue of Real War, published by Stanley Morse. You’ll find them in your registration packets.
In addition to offering curated selections of New Wave and Golden Age science fiction, rare first editions, and UFO-related materials as Book Rapport Rare Books, IOBA member Brandon Purvis offers custom, high-quality, handmade library furniture. Visit Brandon in our dealers’ room, or learn more by clicking the Book Rapport link. This is Brandon’s second trip to PulpFest as a dealer.
World Fantasy Award winner Darrell Schweitzer has been publishing in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields since the early 1970s. New to PulpFest will be The Best of Weird Tales 1924, a new anthology that Darrell co-edited with John Gregory Betancourt; Dancing Before Azathoth, a collection of Darrell’s macabre and fantastic poetry, published by Hippocampus Press; and Cold War Cthulhu, an anthology that will answer all of your questions: Did the CIA have The Necronomicon? Did the KGB make use of interdimensional gates, shoggoths, or the Deep Ones? And more!
The Shadowed Circle launched in 2021 and is the only international publication to focus on The Shadow in pulp novels, comic books, radio episodes, film & television, and various entertainment memorabilia. Each issue features articles, illustrations, interviews, spotlights, reviews, and more. In addition to The Shadowed Circle, the organization also publishes books about The Shadow, including the forthcoming The Shadowed Circle Compendium II, featuring cover art by Joe Booth. Consulting Editor, Tim King is hoping to have copies of the new book in time for The Shadow Con 2026, celebrating its first year at the upcoming PulpFest.
Please extend a hearty welcome to Sean McGraw, the editor-in-chief of Typhoon Tales, a brand-new digest of high-seas danger, jungle peril, and adventure! Within these pages thunder the stories that civilized men whisper about only after nightfall — tales of fog-shrouded islands, mutinous crews, lost temples, storm-torn seas, cannibal tribes, sun-scorched beaches, and iron-nerved heroes who refuse to die quietly. So, pull up a stool at Sean McGraw’s PulpFest table, light your lantern, and brace yourself for an adventure!
An author, speaker, conference host, and UFO researcher, John Ventre — who will be presenting a look at “The Amazing Ray Palmer” on Friday evening, July 31, at PulpFest 2026 — will be offering his wide range of books at his table in the foyer outside our the dealers’ room. The former multi-State Director of the Mutual UFO Network, John is an occasional columnist for many different UFO magazine. Please welcome him to his first PulpFest.
Veritas Entertainment is a production company and publishing house specializing in Men’s Adventure and Pulp Fiction. Founders and authors L. S. Goozdich and Nathanael Hummel, who are also the hosts of the Men’s Adventure Fiction Podcast, will be selling at PulpFest for their second time. They are both incredibly passionate about telling great stories that are filled with action and heart, trying to do their part to bring Pulp and Men’s Adventure back to the forefront of fiction! In such books as Fire In The Tall Grass and Treasure Is My Trade, they endeavor to do their part to bring Pulp and Men’s Adventure back to the forefront of fiction!
Inducted into The Overstreet Hall of Fame in July 2017, Mark Wheatley is a longtime Edgar Rice Burroughs fan and admirer of the work of Philip José Farmer. He holds holds the Eisner, Inkpot, Golden Lion, Mucker, Gem, and Speakeasy awards and nominations for the Harvey award and the Ignatz award. Mark and his wife Carol will have several new art prints for sale at PulpFest 2026 and some of Mark’s books, including Nucleus X, presenting a wealth of illustrated stories, comics, and more. It features several portfolios of Mark’s art, such as his Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs portfolios. He’ll also have some of his original art for sale, including pieces created for The Land That Time Forgot, forthcoming from ERB Books.
At PulpFest 2026, you’ll find author, screenwriter, comic scripter, radio personality, podcaster, and television producer John Wooley sharing a dealer’s table with his buddy John McMahan. The winner of the 2006 Lamont Award, stop by his tables to pick up a copy of Beauty and the Bund, the action-packed supernatural sequel to The Cleansing Trilogy, the highly regarded series that John co-authored with the late Robert A. Brown. Check out our profile of John by reading “PulpFest Profile: Seven Senses of John Wooley” on our website.
But wait!!! Also appearing at PulpFest 2026 will be Streetlight Printing’s PulpFest t-shirts. Click the link on our website and order one, or pick one up at the convention. They’re available in a variety of sizes in black or royal blue with the PulpFest logo across the chest.
So what are you waiting for? Book a room and click the register button on our website. Your PulpFest membership also includes memberships in Doc Con 2026, FarmerCon XXI, and The Shadow Con 2026, celebrating its first year. That’s four conventions for one price, only at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
If you’re from outside the area, don’t forget to book a room. Due to cancellations, our host hotel, the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry may have a few rooms left. Please call our host hotel at 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733. Unfortunately, the deadline to get the convention rate was 11:59 pm on Tuesday, July 7.
You can click here for nearby hotels if all of the rooms at the DoubleTree are no longer available.
Our featured image is excerpted from Earl Norem’s cover art for Men’s Adventure Quarterly #14. It was originally created as the cover for the May 1977 issue of The Six Million Dollar Man, a comic magazine published by Charlton. It was the fifth issue of the magazine’s 7-issue run. Norem, who contributed hundreds of cover paintings and interior illustrations to the men’s adventure magazines, also painted nearly fifty covers for Marvel’s The Savage Sword of Conan.
Our lead image was created by Jeffrey Ray Hayes of Plasmafire Graphics for Charles F. Millhouse’s Stormgate, a novel in the Captain Hawklin universe that will debut at PulpFest 2026.
Based in Spokane, Washington, freelance artist Colton Worley created the cover art for Will Murray’s newest book, Secret Agent X vs. Dr. Death, released in 2026 by Adventures in Bronze. Worley’s cover is modeled after the Corinth-Regency paperback pulp reprints of the 1960s, which included several volumes of both Secret Agent X and Dr. Death adventures.
Bill Cunningham adapted Vic Prezio’s original cover art for Real War for October 1958, published by Stanley Morse.
Sean McGraw is the editor and cover artist for Typhoon Tales, a brand-new digest of high-seas danger, jungle peril, and adventure, debuting in 2026.
Emile C. Tepperman, IV has been writing occasionally for our website since 2017. He is purportedly the great-grandson of Operator #5 and Suicide Squad author Emile Clemens Tepperman. Do we know that for a fact? We haven’t a clue!
