Since August 2024, we’ve had 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 first Monday in July. After that, we’ll have 5 posts a week — Monday through Friday — until the conclusion of PulpFest 2025 on August 10.
In the days ahead, we’ll preview summer’s convention scene and more. On May 12, we will begin to preview the programming planned for PulpFest 2025. The convention will celebrate the “Masters of Blood and Thunder,” the Great Pulp Villains, and more in 2025. Catch us next week for a look at our film program, Edgar Wallace, and more.
And don’t forget that at PulpFest you’ll enjoy four conventions for the price of one. Joining us will be FarmerCon XX, celebrating the life and times of Philip José Farmer; ErbFest 2025, saluting the sesquicentennial of that “Master of Blood and Thunder,” Edgar Rice Burroughs; and Doc Con XXI, the convention for the “Fans of Bronze.” It’s the first Doc Con since 2017, returning just in time for the Golden Anniversary of George Pal’s film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze.
You can’t beat 4 conventions for one price, especially if you’re a fan of Burroughs, Doc, Farmer, and pulps! We hope you’ll join us from August 7 – 10, 2025 in Mars, Pennsylvania at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. You can register for the convention by clicking our “registration” button at the top of the page to be part of “Summer’s Amazing Pulp Con.”
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree, click the “Book a Room” button or call 1-724-776-6900 or 855-610-8733. To receive the special convention rate of $136 plus tax per night, you must mention that you are a PulpFest attendee or use the code CDT91R. By staying at the DoubleTree, you’ll help to ensure the convention’s success. We urge every member to book a hotel room for PulpFest 2025 as soon as possible. Rooms are disappearing quickly.
If you’re interested in selling at PulpFest, our dealers’ room is full. However, we are considering adding tables in the pre-function hallway outside of the dealers’ room. These tables will cost $125 each and will be guarded by security overnight. If you are interested, please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com to be added to our waiting list.
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Our featured image is James Henry Daugherty’s cover for the January 1913 number of Adventure, illustrating George S. Reed’s “Silver Shoes,” a tale of the Spanish Main (where much of the action of that “Master of Blood and Thunder,” Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood takes place). Daugherty was an American artist renowned for his many illustrated books, murals, and paintings. He illustrated or authored 104 books during his life and twice won the Caldecott Honor Medal, as well as the John Newbery Medal.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from J. Allen St. John’s dust jacket for the first edition of ERB’s At the Earth’s Core, A. C. McClurg, 1922.
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).
