PulpFest celebrates mystery, adventure, science fiction, and much more. The pulp magazines of the early twentieth century – cheaply-priced all-fiction magazines printed on pulpwood paper – were the vessel where the hardboiled detective, science fiction, and sword and sorcery genres developed and flourished. The pulps gave us Buck Rogers, Conan the Barbarian, Cthulhu, Doc Savage, Hopalong Cassidy, John Carter of Mars, Sam Spade, The Shadow, Solomon Kane, Tarzan, Zorro, and many other pop culture icons.