PulpFest is not only lauded for its fine programming but also for its large dealers’ room.
Beginning on Thursday, July 30, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry will be home to thousands of collectible pulp magazines and digests, vintage paperbacks, first-edition hardcovers and series books, original art, genre fiction, B-movies and serials, collectible comic books, and much more.
What dealers are we expecting at PulpFest 2026? In our posts this week, we’re profiling our dealers, telling you a little bit about each of them.
Our 2018 Munsey Award winner William Lampkin is the advertising director for PulpFest as well as the editor and designer of The Pulpster, the convention’s award-winning program book. He’s also the guy who designs all the great banners you’ll find around the convention. Bill will have a tempting selection of pulp fanzines and other collectibles for sale at his table. He attended his first Pulpcon in 2006 and his first PulpFest in 2014. When he’s not creating our advertising or banners, managing our website, or editing The Pulpster, Bill is publishing ThePulp.Net, your online source for all things pulp for nearly thirty years.
Gary Lovisi is a Mystery Writers of America-nominated author of fiction and non-fiction. He has written all manner of pulp-related crime and science fiction, such as his Vic Powers and Griff & Fats hard-boiled cop stories, and his five Jon Kirk of Ares interplanetary romance novels. His latest work is The Sicilian series that takes place during the reign of Caesar Augustus in Ancient Rome. Under his Gryphon Books imprint he has published hundreds of books and magazines, including his book collector magazine, Paperback Parade, now in its 40th year of publication. His wife, Lucille, is an accomplished artist who contributes wonderful covers and other works of art to many of his writing projects. He is a member in ‘bad-standing’ in writing for the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, but hopes to rectify that situation soon. Selling regularly on eBay, please welcome the Lovisis to their first PulpFest.
Please welcome Hunter Lyon to his first PulpFest. Hailing from South Carolina, Hunter is an Army Engineer Officer with the United States Army Reserve, and an author. He’s spent time as a film and stage actor, stuntman, and prizefighter. His novel, Attack of The Specter!, will be making its world premiere at PulpFest 2026. Paperback copies will only be available at the convention. “Brooklyn, 1953. Gangsters, predators, and Soviet spies rule from the shadows. One man puts on a mask and answers in lead.” A Cold War commando/noir adventure series, The Specter is a veteran of World War II and Korea, who takes the offensive on the fight against the Reds. For more on The Specter, please click here.
Author of the Edgar-nominated “Hector Lassiter” historical crime series, Craig McDonald is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and editor. His internationally acclaimed works have found a global audience and have also been adapted to the graphic novel format. Craig’s “Lassiter series chronicles the exploits of a fictional Black Mask author and his encounters with such notable figures as Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, Ian Fleming, and Lester Dent. His Adventures of Zana O’Savin follow the exploits of several tulpas who bear more than a striking resemblance to Pat Savage and other great pulp heroes. The fifth book in the series — The Invisible Crusade — will be debuting at PulpFest. Craig — who is our assistant director of marketing — also creates the videos found on our YouTube channel. Watch for his tables directly inside the main entrance to our dealers’ room.
Bob McGeeney joins us for his fifth consecutive PulpFest as a dealer. He specializes in Edgar Rice Burroughs, vintage science fiction paperbacks, pulps, and Big Little Books. He contributed to Jon Warren’s Official Price Guide Paperbacks: First Edition, published by House of Collectibles in 1991, and several paperback collector magazines over the years. He loves collecting and looks forward to meeting you at Pulpfest 2026.
Alan McGill is a self-published author born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. He is the son of a third-generation coal miner, who forged his own path as a private investigator and police officer. After nearly four decades as an investigator, Alan drew inspiration from his own cases and personal experiences to write the noir detective thriller series Bumper City. He recently released Rolling Bones and has plans for many more Bumper City novels well into the future. An accomplished narrator and podcaster, Alan’s werewolf and witch’s saga, A Cry in the Moon’s Light, made the “Top 10 in Fiction Drama” in 2021 on Podbean.
John McMahan sells collectibles on ebay as mybckpages. He comes to us from Oklahoma, where he has long been active as a fan and dealer. At PulpFest 2026, John will be selling pulps, books, comics, original art, movie posters, and more. He will also have copies of Hard-Boiled Christmas Stories, the anthology he edited with 2006 Lamont Award winner John Wooley. Check out our profile of the latter by reading “PulpFest Profile: Seven Senses of John Wooley” on our website.
Please welcome Bill McMahon of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, to his first PulpFest. He has so much stuff to bring to the convention, he has asked Larry and Marian Caffin to help transport his pulps, posters, books, old-time radio shows, Big
Little Books, and other memorabilia to the show and to staff his tables. Bill will also bring a couple of original 1940s working radios equipped with Bluetooth technology, which allows you to play from your phone or computer. The Caffins are also going through their collection, and will bring some nice old-time radio shows and other treasures to Mars. Be sure to visit their tables in our dealers’ room.
Peter Macuga has been selling at PulpFest for years. He’ll have many pulps and books to sell, including early issues of Astounding Stories, up through the late 1940s. Peter will also have collectible hardcovers from Gnome Press and other publishers. He’ll have five or six tables brimming with top-notch material.
From Buffalo, New York, Bill Mann returns as a dealer to PulpFest. One of the founders and an editor at Age of Aces Books, Bill will be selling a variety of aviation pulps and books, delivered to PulpFest by parachute. Head over to Bill’s tables near his Age of Aces compadres, Chris and David Kalb, to see what he’s flown in.
Emanuel ‘Manny’ Maris is a lifelong fan and collector of hero, crime, and fantasy pulps, pre-1970 comic books, and other pop culture collectibles. He has been doing mail order and convention tables for over fifty years. He has run film shows and dealers’ rooms and published program books for various conventions. Since retiring, he sells through eBay and elsewhere as Manny’s Vintage Mintage, and occasionally takes tables at various conventions to sell the extras and second copies from his 45,000 book and magazine collection. He returns to PulpFest as a dealer for the fourth time.
Tom Martin is a long-time collector who has attended PulpFest and its predecessor, Pulpcon, for over 45 years. Located in southwestern Ohio, Tom can be found searching for new treasures at area antique shows, flea markets, and auctions. His tables feature a diverse variety of vintage pulps, comics, magazines, paperbacks, and more, with an emphasis on scarce and high-grade items. Be sure to stop by Tom’s tables and check out his wares for this year.
Collecting since the early days of pulp fandom, legend has it that Walker Martin has owned practically every pulp at least once! A resident of New Jersey, he’ll be selling a variety of pulp magazines, original artwork, one-of-a-kind canceled checks from the files of Munsey and Popular Publications, and more at PulpFest 2026. Walker has been a regular columnist for the Mystery*File blog, published online by 2026 Munsey Award nominee, Steve Lewis.
William Patrick Maynard is from Northeast Ohio and has been a mainstay at PulpFest since 2009. Debuting at this year’s PulpFest are the brand new 2026 hardcover and trade paperback editions of his two out-of-print Fu Manchu continuation novels, as well as the first publication anywhere of his third Fu Manchu thriller, The Triumph of Fu Manchu. Bill’s tables will also feature an assortment of Sax Rohmer titles and related pulp material from his own collection. Look for him in our foyer. Bill will be part of our “Working with Licensed Characters” panel on Saturday, August 1, and is one of our nominees for the 2026 Munsey Award.
Terry Meister has been collecting pulps for 60 years, beginning with a handful of late-30s/early-40s Doc Savage issues purchased at the late lamented Kay’s Book Store in Cleveland, Ohio. While attending shows since the Pulpcon days, this is only his fourth PulpFest as a dealer. He’ll have a wide range of pulps, pulp excerpts, and pulp-related hardbacks — including material by Burroughs, Cummings, England, Giesy, Howard, Lovecraft, and Merritt. And, if time permits, some comics, movie material, comic strips, 16 mm shorts, and … stop by and see what you find at his table!
Fantasy and science fiction publisher Meteor House will be back at PulpFest, hosting the 2026 FarmerCon. Pick up your copies of the first hardcover editions of Philip José Farmer’s Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar. Both volumes include bonus material, the original Roy Krenkel interior illustrations, and more. Meteor House will also debut Riverworld Odyssey at this year’s PulpFest/FarmerCon. A nearly 600-page collection exploring the history of Farmer’s Riverworld series, the book features cover art by Mark Wheatley. Michael Croteau, Win Scott Eckert, and Paul Spiteri will also be selling items from their back catalog, as well as works created by attendees of FarmerCon XXI. We hope you’ll also join us for our panel on Friday, July 31, “The Early Philip José Farmer: Pulps and Digests,” featuring Croteau and Eckert. Win will also be leading our “Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs” panel on the same day.
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. From the thrilling 1930s escapades of Captain Hawklin to the eerie, supernatural frontiers of New Kingdom, and the high-stakes spacefaring exploits of Serena Darkwood, Charles crafts immersive worlds, unforgettable characters, and pulse-pounding narratives that captivate readers from start to finish. A storyteller at heart, Charles lives in Southeastern Ohio with his wife and two sons, where he continues to weave tales of adventure, mystery, and heroism. To learn more about Charles and his work, visit StormGate Press or reach out to Charles at stormgatepress@gmail.com.
If you’re interested in selling at PulpFest, our dealers’ room is full. If you would like to be added to our waiting list, please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
If you want to visit our dealers’ room, you have to be a member of PulpFest 2026. To join the convention, 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!
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.
If you’re looking for a roommate, write to Jack Cullers at his email address above.
We’ll be profiling more of our PulpFest 2026 dealers through Friday, July 10. Please visit our site on Thursday, July 9, for our next set of dealer profiles.
Our featured image is a grocery store display in an unknown location, selling pulp magazines circa the spring of 1939. We’ll be running photographs of vintage newsstands and magazine racks all week. Special thanks to ThePulp.Net for sharing their collection of pulp photos from the early 20th century with us.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Alex Schomburg’s cover art for the September 1961 issue of Amazing Stories, featuring Philip José Farmer’s “Tongues of the Moon.” We’ll be saluting Amazing Stories, Philip José Farmer, Alex Schomburg, and more at PulpFest 2026 and FarmerCon XXI.
Craig McDonald’s popular Zana O’Savin series draws to a close with The Invisible Crusade, featuring cover art by Douglas C. Klauba.
Our final image is the cover of the November 16, 1940 issue of Liberty magazine, illustrating Sax Rohmer’s novel, “Fu Manchu and the Panama Canal,” a 12-part serial that was later published in book form as The Island of Fu Manchu. The story involves Fu Manchu’s attempts to disrupt the United States’ navy during World War II by launching attacks from a hidden stronghold in the Caribbean. The cover art is by Arnold Friberg. Like Ghost Stories — 100 years old in 2026 — Liberty was published by Bernarr Macfadden.
Kenneth Grant is a writer and popular culture enthusiast who began writing for our website in 2022. He particularly enjoys the hero pulps and has written about pulp villains, Ron Hill’s documentary We Are Doc Savage, Talking Pulp with Craig McDonald, the “Great Pulp Villains,” and more.
