PulpFest 2025 will officially begin tomorrow. Dealers who arrive today will be able to set up their displays from 6:30 to 8:30 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.
If your dealer tables are in the foyer, just outside of our dealers’ room, we have security scheduled for Wednesday through Saturday nights, starting at midnight and running until 7 am. Within the dealers’ room, there are no worries. The doors are locked and secured nightly.
At 9 pm tonight, Henry G Franke III & award-winning artist Mark Wheatley will discuss “A Century of Robert K. Abbett” in the PulpFest programming room. The general public is welcome to attend.
Dealer setup will continue on Thursday, July 30, 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, July 30. 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 6:55 pm. The general public is welcome to attend our evening programming. Click the 2026 Schedule link to learn more about our great programming or click here to link to our 2026 mobile schedule. To learn more about a particular programming event, click on its title link.
We look forward to seeing you at PulpFest 2026. Your PulpFest membership also makes you a member of Doc Con 2026, FarmerCon XXI, and The Shadow Con 2026. That’s four conventions for one price!
Please travel safely to summer’s pulp con.
Travel safely and take your time. Enjoying PulpFest doesn’t depend on who gets to it first! You don’t want to wind up like the mariners in Frank R. Paul’s painting, featured on the cover of Amazing Stories for June 1926, a scene from Jules Verne’s “A Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Stan Mott’s cover art for the June 1961 issue of Amazing Stories. We’ll be celebrating the centennial of Hugo Gernsback’s groundbreaking science fiction magazine from July 30 – August 2 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania during PulpFest 2026.
As long as you’re not driving, be sure to visit the PulpFest YouTube Channel for Craig McDonald’s great videos on Black Mask, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Amazing Stories, and more . . .
Of course, while you’re at the PulpFest Channel, please remember to subscribe.
