PulpFest 2026 will officially begin today, as our dealers finish erecting their displays for this year’s pulp con! The dealers’ room will open for exhibitors to set up at 8 am. 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 any dealer needs additional help with directions to the hotel and/or the loading area, please call or text Jack Cullers at 937.671.1574 or Mike Chomko at 610.737.2003.
Registration for all members will also start at 8 am in the foyer outside the dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.
There is ample free parking surrounding our host hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. The hotel 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.
The dealers’ room will open for early-bird shopping at 9 am today. 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.
Everyone can pick up their registration packets from 8 am until 4:45 pm. To help things move smoothly, please bring along a completed registration form. You can download a copy by clicking here or through the link found on our registration page. Paper forms will also be available at the door.
A full weekend membership to PulpFest 2026 will cost $50 at the door for those who have not registered in advance. If you’re not staying at the DoubleTree, early-bird shopping privileges are an additional $30, on top of your registration fee. Although there is no daily membership available for Thursday, July 30, daily memberships for Friday or Saturday will be available for $25 per day.
Thanks to Bill Cunningham and his Men’s Adventure Quarterly 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.
Your PulpFest membership also includes membership in Doc Con 2026, FarmerCon XXI, and The Shadow Con 2026. That’s four conventions for one price!
Although the focus of PulpFest is pulp magazines and related materials, digests, vintage paperbacks, contemporary genre fiction and pulp reprints, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first-edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books, as well as pulp-related comic books and games, are also allowed.
Our daily auction preview will run from 3:30 – 4:45 PM. We’ll be selling over 200 lots of material from the George A. Rawling collection of hero and aviation pulps, plus collectibles consigned by members of the convention. The auction will take place on Saturday, August 1, beginning at 8 pm. The general public is welcome to attend and bid. To learn more or to download an auction catalog, click here.
PulpFest attendees will also be able to submit lots to the auction from 9 am until 4:45 pm. Member submitted lots will be added to the auction as they come in. Please see PulpFest auction coordinator Mike Chomko to learn more. Look for the auction banner near his dealer tables.
Following today’s early-bird shopping, pizza will be served in the Ember & Vine lounge of the DoubleTree. Thanks to the generosity of our dealers, PulpFest will celebrate the convention’s return with pizza at 5 pm today. All PulpFest attendees are invited to have a few slices. We’ll supply the pizza, but the drinks are on you.
Our full evening programming slate will begin at 6:55 pm, beginning with “The Rise and Fall of Gernsback’s Amazing Stories,” part of our salute to this year’s Amazing Stories centennial.
A showing of Ray Harryhausen’s 1957 science fiction thriller, 20 Million Miles to Earth, will close our Thursday evening programming, beginning shortly after 11 pm. If you prefer socializing, join us in the Ember & Vine lounge at the DoubleTree for our 2026 Bronze Bash, part of this year’s Doc Con.
You’ll find our complete schedule for Thursday, July 30, below. You can also access our schedule You can also access our schedule by clicking the 2026 schedule link on our website or via your mobile phone or tablet, by visiting pulpfest.com/schedule/. Each event on the schedule is linked to a post that provides additional information about the event. Just click on the event’s title.
Watch for the “panels” banner to find our programming area at the convention. The general public is welcome to attend all of our programming, free of charge.
If you are not from the Pittsburgh area and have yet to book your room for PulpFest 2026, 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.
Please travel safely to summer’s pulp con.
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Dealers’ Room
8:00 am – 9:00 am — Dealers’ Room Set-Up (only dealers & helpers allowed entry)
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Registration Desk Open for All Attendees
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Dealers’ Room Open for Early-Bird Shopping
9:00 am – 4:45 pm — Submit Your Auction Items to PulpFest (Dealers’ Room Foyer)
Auction Preview
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm — Auction Preview (in Willow & Walnut Rooms)
Hotel Lounge
5:00 pm – 6:45 pm — Pizza at PulpFest (sponsored by PulpFest’s Generous Dealers)
Evening Programming
6:55 pm – 7:00 pm — Welcome to PulpFest — Remarks from Chairman Jack Cullers
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm — Amazing — The Rise and Fall of Gernsback’s Amazing Stories (Garyn Roberts)
7:50 pm – 8:35 pm — Amazing — The Scithers Years (John Gregory Betancourt & Darrell Schweitzer)
8:40 pm – 9:25 pm — Doc Con — The AmazingAdventures of Doc Savage (Daryl Morrissey)
9:30 pm – 10:15 pm — Amazing — The Shaver Mystery (Jeff Shanks)
10:20 pm – 11:05 pm — Amazing — Cosmic Collectibles: Buck Rogers Conquers Merchandising (Jim Beard)
11:10 pm – 1:00 am — Amazing — 20 Million Miles to Earth(1957)
Hotel Lounge
11:10 pm – ?? am — Doc Con — Bronze Bash — Socialize at Ember & Vine
For further information on our presentations, click on the available links.
Click here to link to our mobile schedule.
Our featured image is excerpted from Ed Valigursky’s cover for the only issue of Amazing Stories Science Fiction Novel. Released in June 1957, the one-shot magazine featured an adaptation of Nathan Juran’s science-fiction thriller, 20 Million Miles to Earth, written by Henry Slesar.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Frank R. Paul’s cover for the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. It’s our webcard for Professor Garyn G. Roberts’ presentation, “The Rise and Fall of Gernsback’s Amazing Stories.”
Released in 2022 by Bottleneck Gallery, Francesco Francavilla’s 20 Million Miles to Earth image is a limited edition screen print movie poster, paying tribute to the classic 1957 science fiction film featuring the special effects of Ray Harryhausen.
Below is the official trailer for the Ray Harryhausen classic, 20 Million Miles to Earth.
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