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Pulpfest 2018 Jul 26-29 Pittsburgh - Elthar - 05-23-2018
Thank you for allowing me to post this announcement. While reading your novels, I would catch a few references to the pulps like Doc Savage and the Shadow so I thought that this would be appropriate.
http://www.pulpfest.com/
PulpFest is a convention for readers and collectors of the old adventure, westerns, detective, weird tales and SF magazines from the 1930s through the 1950s. The pulps are part of the foundation that gaming was created on. These magazines started the stories of the Shadow, Doc Savage, Conan and featured the Cthulhu Mythos stories by H. P. Lovecraft along with a the works of mystery writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
The convention will take place from Thursday evening, July 26th, through Sunday afternoon, July 29th, in the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, Mars, PA.
There are a number of current authors reading their works and panels on different literary themes along with other events such as an art show and auction. Also, there is a great dealers’ room featuring tens of thousands of pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, digests, genre fiction, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, original art, first edition hardcovers, series books, reference books, dime novels and story papers, Big Little Books, B-Movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books, as well as newspaper adventure strips.
I have been there for the last few years and have had a great time. It is a lot smaller than Gen Con and Origins but like many small local cons, it has an atmosphere all its own. If you are looking for a literary themed/collection convention, this is a good one.
The convention’s guest of honor will be award-winning author Joe Lansdale. The author of over forty novels and many short stories, Lansdale has also written for comics, television, film, Internet sites, and more. His novella “Bubba Ho-Tep” was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. The film adaptation of his novel COLD IN JULY was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, while the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels to television. Joe will be talking with Tony Davis on Saturday evening, July 28 and be available at select times during the convention.
Pulpfest 2018 Jul 26-29 Pittsburgh - fpw - 05-24-2018
This looks like fun.
Pulpfest 2018 Jul 26-29 Pittsburgh - tbone42486 - 06-18-2018
Thanks for sharing this. I live in Uniontown, about an hour south of Pittsburgh. I’m looking into it.
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Pulpfest 2018 Jul 26-29 Pittsburgh - Elthar - 06-18-2018
Great! Please let me know if you have any questions.