PulpFest

Register for PulpFest 2024

Scheduled for August 1 – 4, PulpFest 2024 will take place at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.

Register now and beat the rush. You’ll save money and get free early-bird shopping if you book a room at the convention’s host hotel. By staying at the DoubleTree, you help defray the convention’s expenses and show our hotel that PulpFest will help their bottom line.

Currently, there are plenty of rooms available at the DoubleTree. You can make a reservation directly through the PulpFest website. You’ll find a link that reads “Book a Room” near the top of our page. Click the link and you’ll be redirected to a secure site to place your reservation.

When booking your room online, the dates automatically populate to Wednesday – Monday. Click the dates and make your changes on the calendar that appears. When done, close the calendar, and complete your reservation.

You can also reserve a room by calling 1-855-610-8755. 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 CDT91J.

Included in your room rate are complimentary hot breakfasts during each day of your stay. Free Wi-Fi and free parking are also included.

You must book your room by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, July 9, to get the special convention deal. Any reservations made after the deadline will be accepted at the best available rate if rooms are available. We recommend booking your room early as the hotel has been selling out for PulpFest.

Please note that a deposit equaling the first night’s room rate plus tax will be required at the time of reservation. You will have until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on July 1, 2024 — one month before the start of PulpFest 2024 — to cancel your reservation and receive a refund of your deposit. Any cancellation made after the deadline will result in the forfeiture of your deposit.

If you’re having trouble booking a room, please click the “contact” button on our homepage and let us know how we can help. Thank you.

For All Members

All PulpFest 2024 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.

Full membership to PulpFest 2024 if staying at the DoubleTree and paying in advance — $40 (includes free early-bird shopping to thank you for your tremendous support)

Full membership to PulpFest 2024 if paying at the door — $50 (includes free early-bird shopping to thank you for your tremendous support)

Full membership to PulpFest 2024 if staying elsewhere — $50 (without early-bird shopping)
Full membership to PulpFest 2024 if staying elsewhere — $80 (with early-bird shopping)

Single-day membership to PulpFest 2024 for Friday or Saturday — $25 per day

Supporting Membership — $30

All paying members, including supporting members, will receive a complimentary copy of our program book, The Pulpster, a $15 value. Supporting members will receive their Pulpster by mail, postage paid.

The deadline for advance registrations is 10 p.m. on Sunday, July 28, 2024.

Additional Details

A full membership will get you into all PulpFest 2024 events held during the convention. The only exception is for early-bird shopping which is reserved for full PulpFest 2024 members who are staying at the DoubleTree or those staying elsewhere who elect to pay an additional $30 to shop early at the convention.

An early-bird membership will get you into the dealers’ room from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 1. Only staff, dealers, and early birds will be allowed into the dealers’ room during these hours.

Please realize that due to travel conditions and other contingencies, the convention cannot guarantee that each and every PulpFest dealer will be available during our early-bird hours. The convention’s programming will start at 6:55 p.m. on August 1.

Children aged 15 and younger, accompanied by an adult, will be admitted for free. However, they must be registered.

Please note that single-day memberships will not be available on Thursday, August 1. If you wish to participate in early-bird shopping, you will have to purchase a full membership to the convention.

Registration will be held outside the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry on Thursday, August 1, running from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday, running from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. If paying at the door, you’ll be able to use cash, check, or credit card.

If you are paying at the door, please have your completed registration form on hand to speed up the process.

Please note that single-day memberships will not be available on Sunday, August 4, as most of our dealers will be packing up to return home. Most of them have a long travel day ahead of them.

Click the button below to register for PulpFest 2024.

To pay for your membership, please see the payment instructions below.

For Dealers Only

All dealers and their helpers are required to purchase a full membership to PulpFest 2024. Additionally, our table rental fees are as follows:

Island-table rental fee — $100 per table
Wall-table rental fee — $110 per table

PulpFest 2024 will have 150 or more six-foot tables in its 10,880-square-foot dealers’ room. Wall tables and placement within the dealers’ room will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. About sixty wall tables will be available in our dealers’ room. If you desire a wall table, please make your reservation as soon as possible.

We urge everyone who would like to sell at PulpFest 2024 to reserve their tables early. In 2023, our dealers’ room sold out two months before the convention began.

There will be no height restrictions on any tables. Displays will be allowed on tables as long as they can safely stand. Please use common sense and courtesy to design your displays.

No banners or other signage may be attached to the hotel’s walls with tape, tacks, or any other material. If you have a banner that you wish to display, you must provide your own banner stand. The convention is not responsible for providing you with a banner stand or easel to display your advertising.

All members registering as dealers are required to have material for sale at their tables. If you have any special needs — positioning within the room, unique display requirements, electrical needs, and so on — please let us know when you register. Please do not wait until the last minute to inform us about your needs or desires.

Although the focus of PulpFest 2024 will be pulp magazines and related materials, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies, vintage television shows, and movie serials, as well as related paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and pulp-related comic books and games can also be sold. Please remember that PulpFest is not a comic book convention. Sexually explicit material, including Playboy, Penthouse, and Oui, will not be allowed to be displayed.

As we have for the last two years, we will allow early-arriving dealers to begin setting up on Wednesday evening, July 31, from about 5:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Absolutely no one who is not a dealer or dealer’s helper will be allowed into the dealers’ room during this period of time. No buying, selling, or trading will be permitted. This time is meant to be used for set-up alone.

Dealers will also be able to set up early on Thursday, August 1, starting at 9 a.m. Selling to early-bird shoppers will begin at 9 a.m. and run until 4:45 p.m. On Friday and Saturday, August 2 – 3, the dealers’ room will also be open from 9 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. for all members of PulpFest 2024.

All dealers are urged to have their displays set up by 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 1. If you are not able to comply, please discuss your needs with convention chairperson Jack Cullers by emailing him at jack@pulpfest.com or writing him at the address noted below.

All registered dealers will be profiled in a series of posts that will run on the PulpFest website in late July. Our marketing director, Mike Chomko, will contact all registered dealers about the post.

Click the button below to register as a dealer for PulpFest 2024.

To pay for your dealer membership, please see the payment instructions below.

Payment Instructions

To pay for your registration, please send your check or money order to David J. Cullers, 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305, or use our PulpFest Paypal Cart by clicking the button below.

If you pay via Paypal, you’ll also have to register via email, providing all of the information required on our registration form to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.

Additional Details

The deadline for advance registrations is Sunday, July 28, 2024, at 10 p.m. eastern time.

If you have any questions about member or dealer registrations, please write to Jack Cullers at one of the addresses noted above.

PulpFest is for All to Enjoy

Our attendees come to PulpFest to celebrate and learn about popular culture, socialize, and enjoy themselves. Therefore, all attendees of PulpFest are asked to keep opinions of a political, religious, or societal nature to themselves.

If any convention attendee seeks to importune any PulpFest member with his or her opinions, the offending member will be asked to leave PulpFest.

Although you have a right to your opinions, our members — including dealers — are not at the convention to be lectured about politics, religion, and so on.

To Learn More

To learn more about PulpFest 2024 — including information about our programming, auction, and a whole lot more — look through our website or download a copy of our 2024 newsletter by clicking the button below.

Paper copies of the newsletter will be mailed to our regular attendees during March 2024. Please write to Jack Cullers if you would like to be included in our mailing.

Volunteer for PulpFest 2024

If you are interested in volunteering at PulpFest 2024, please click the “contact” button on our homepage and let us know how you can help. Thank you.

Designed by PulpFest’s advertising director, William Lampkin, our lead image features H. J. Ward’s original cover art for the August 1940 issue of Spicy Mystery. Our featured image is adapted from H. L. Parkhurst’s cover for the June 1934 number of Spicy Detective Stories, the second issue of the pulp magazine.

We’ll be saluting the the 90th anniversary of  Harry Donenfeld’s and Frank Armer’s “Spicy” pulps and much more at our 2024 convention. We hope you’ll join us from August 1 – 4 for PulpFest 2024, only at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania.

PulpFest Returns to Pittsburgh!

PulpFest 2024 will begin Thursday, Aug. 1, and run through Sunday, Aug. 4. It will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Please join us for "Spice, Spies, & Shaw" and much more at PulpFest 2024.

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