Our friends at ThePulp.net have posted audio recordings and photos of last year's PulpFest 2024 and FarmerCon XIX, which took place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 1-3, in Mars, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh.
Come to this year’s ERBFest to learn all of the latest news and ideas coming from the fertile minds at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Incorporated.
Join Vice President of Publishing Christopher Paul Carey and Vice
President of Operations Cathy Mann Wilbanks, live from the stage at PulpFest
2025, for the latest updates from Tarzana. Joining Chris and Cathy in
Barsoom, Pennsylvania, will be Chris L Adams, the author of Gauntlets of Mars, and Win Scott Eckert, author of Pellucidar: Land of Awful Shadow, the forthcoming sequel to Korak at the Earth’s Core.
From its headquarters in Tarzana, California, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.,
administers the intellectual property of American author Edgar Rice
Burroughs, one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and enduring
writers. Burroughs’ 80+ novels and 40+ short stories have been adapted
into sixty films and 250 television episodes, and have been featured in
comic books, video games, apparel, and other merchandise.
The ERB, Inc. team will also be exploring some of their recent and
upcoming book releases. These include the next two volumes in the
original Barsoom saga by ERB, with cover art by Joe Jusko; Mike
Wolfer’s The Land That Time Forgot: Fearless graphic novel and The Land That Time Forgot: Fortress Primeval; and the new edition of The Monster Men and its chilling sequel, The Return of the Monster Men, written by Scribe Award-winning author Josh Reynolds.
Chris and Cathy will also talk about the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe animated TV series
now in development with Flying S Films LLC, a Seattle-based studio
dedicated to producing unique feature films and episodic properties for a
worldwide audience. They’ll also have some great door prizes. But
remember, you need to be in attendance at their presentation to win! Many thanks to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., for their generous donations.
Our “The Universe According to Edgar Rice Burroughs” panel presentation is all part of ERBFest 2025, our fourth salute to the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Co-hosted by Henry G. Franke III — the editor of The Burroughs Bibliophiles — ERBFest was started in 2021 when it seemed as if a second summer was going to pass without both of the usual Burroughs conventions — The Edgar Rice Burroughs Convention (formerly known as the Dum-Dum) and the Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship (ECOF) gathering.
The
general public is welcome to attend our afternoon programming events
free of charge. To learn more about our programming, please click the 2025 Schedule button at the top of this page.
For those who also want to enjoy our dealers’ room, you can join PulpFest by clicking the register button at the top of this page. And don’t forget to book a room. The DoubleTree is essentially sold out, but you can click here for nearby hotels. If you’re looking for a roommate, write to Jack Cullers at his email address below.
Remember, in addition to your membership in PulpFest 2025, you’ll also be a member of Doc Con XXI, ERBFest 2025, and Farmercon XX. That’s four conventions for one price! You can’t beat that deal.
If you’re interested in selling at PulpFest, our dealers’
room is full. However, we are considering adding tables in the
pre-function hallway outside of the dealers’ room. These tables will
cost $125 each and will be guarded by security overnight. If you are
interested, please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com to be added to our waiting list.
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Our featured image is excerpted from Joe Jusko’s dust jacket art for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth volume in the author’s Barsoom Saga, part of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library.
Our lead image was adapted by William Lampkin from Douglas C. Klauba’s dust jacket art for Gauntlet of Mars, written by Chris L Adams. It’s the fourteenth volume in the Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs series.
Our final image is the dust jacket art for Win Scott Eckert’s Korak at the Earth’s Core, the opening segment of the “Dead Moon Super-Arc,” part of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. The dust wrapper was created by E. M. Gist.
Norman Bean is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan who joined our
staff of volunteer post-writers in August 2023. Norm has written about
conventions, “pulp paleontology,” our dealers, and, of course, ERBFest and ERB himself. We look forward to his continued contributions.
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Since 2011, PulpFest has hosted Farmercon, a
convention celebrating the life and times of the longtime pulp fan and
Grand Master of Science Fiction, born over 100 years ago.
Few people think of Philip José Farmer as
a pulp writer, but he was a child of the pulps and launched his career
in the pulps. Born January 26, 1918 in North Terre Haute, Indiana,
Farmer grew up in Peoria, Illinois. He spent much of his childhood
reading everything he could find from the classics through the pulps.
Farmer’s interest in the rough-paper magazines of his youth would lead him to pen two biographies about pulp characters —Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life during his career.He would also author official Doc Savage and Tarzan novels: Escape from Loki and The Dark Heart of Time.Both stories were set in the year of their author’s birth — 1918.
One of the highlights of FarmerCon XX will be the convention’s panel saluting Doc Savage and Tarzan — the late author’s two favorite pulp characters.
We hope you’ll join PulpFest on Friday, August 8, at 8:35 pm
as we welcome Christopher Paul Carey and Win Scott Eckert to our stage
for “Tarzan the Time Traveler” — exploring Philip José Farmer’s Time’s Last Gift, a
novel featuring “a tall, dark-haired, gray-eyed Englishman who goes
native far too easily and competently” — and “Discourses on Doc” — a
look at Farmer’s writings and speculations concerning “The Man of
Bronze.”
Christopher Paul Carey is the coauthor with Philip José Farmer of The Song of Kwasin, and the author of Exiles of Kho, Hadon, King of Opar, and Blood of Ancient Opar, all works set in Farmer’s Khokarsa series. He is the author of Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic science fantasy novel The Moon Maid, as well as the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: The Fires of Halos.
He has scripted several comic books set in Burroughs’ worlds and his
short fiction can be found in various anthologies. He is Vice President
of Publishing at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the corporation founded by
Burroughs in 1923, and he has edited more than 100 novels, anthologies,
and collections for a variety of publishers. He lives in Southern
California.
Win Scott Eckert is the authorized legacy author of Philip José Farmer’s Patricia Wildman series (The Evil in Pemberley House, The Scarlet Jaguar), as well as the coauthor with Farmer of the Doc Caliban/Secrets of the Nine novel, The Monster on Hold. A lifelong Edgar Rice Burroughs reader, Eckert wrote the authorized Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novels, Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar and Korak at the Earth’s Core, withPellucidar: Land of Awful Shadow and Tarzan Unleashed forthcoming.
His other professional credits include authorized tales of Zorro, the
Phantom, Honey West, the Avenger, the Lone Ranger, and the Green Hornet,
as well as short stories featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Domino
Lady, and Sherlock Holmes. His latest short story, “She-Devil of Paris,”
saw print in Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025. He lives in Woodland Park, Colorado, with his wife and a bevy of four-legged family members.
“Fraternize at Farmercon” will follow our panel presentation at 11:05 pm in the Ember & Vine lounge at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. All are welcome to join the “Friends of Phil” during their gatherings in our host hotel’s restaurant and lounge.
All this and more will be part of Farmercon XX, the 2025 convention for all things Farmer, taking place from August 7 – 10 at this summer’s PulpFest.
The
general public is welcome to attend our evening programming events free
of charge. To learn more about our programming, please click the 2025 Schedule button at the top of this page.
For those who also want to enjoy our dealers’ room, you can join PulpFest by clicking the register button at the top of this page. And don’t forget to book a room. The DoubleTree is essentially sold out, but you can click here for nearby hotels. If you’re looking for a roommate, write to Jack Cullers at his email address below.
Remember, in addition to your membership in PulpFest 2025, you’ll also be a member of Doc Con XXI, ERBFest 2025, and Farmercon XX. That’s four conventions for one price! You can’t beat that deal.
If you’re interested in selling at PulpFest, our dealers’
room is full. However, we are adding a limited number of tables in the
pre-function hallway outside of the dealers’ room. These tables will
cost $125 each and will be guarded by security overnight. If you are
interested, please write to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com
to sign up for a spot. Any attendees who are interested in providing
security services, please write to Jack Cullers at his email address
above.
Our featured image is excerpted from Keith Howell’s cover art for Savageology, a collection of Philip José Farmer’s writings about Doc Savage, forthcoming from Meteor House in 2025.
Our lead image is adapted by William Lampkin from Bob Eggleton’s dust jacket art for Philip José Farmer’s Time’s Last Gift, forthcoming from Meteor House in 2025.
Our final image is Philip José Farmer’s Time’s Last Gift, the second British printing, published by Panther Books in 1979 with cover art by Geoff Cummings.
Pleased to announce that I'll be an attending author at Read Between the Stars (a sci-fi/fantasy book fair) on Saturday, October 4 at the Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, CO!
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Celebrates Its Centennial!
One hundred years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs founded his own company and became the first author to incorporate himself. Today Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., is still owned by his heirs; operates out of Tarzana, California, on the property of Mr. Burroughs’ former ranch; and is actively engaged in promoting his legacy and licensing the rights to his works of wonder and imagination.
On this momentous occasion of the corporation’s centennial, which is a testament to the lasting vision and enduring legacy of the Master of Adventure, we honor and salute Edgar Rice Burroughs, our company’s founder. We humbly follow in the footsteps of this literary giant, who has laid down the foundation of our path through his entrepreneurial spirit and steadfast determination. We continue to be inspired by Mr. Burroughs as we chart the course of the corporation into the future, ever striving to maintain the high quality of entertainment for which he will be remembered for as long as there are people to read his wondrous stories.On this momentous occasion of the corporation’s centennial, which is a testament to the lasting vision and enduring legacy of the Master of Adventure, we honor and salute Edgar Rice Burroughs, our company’s founder. We humbly follow in the footsteps of this literary giant, who has laid down the foundation of our path through his entrepreneurial spirit and steadfast determination. We continue to be inspired by Mr. Burroughs as we chart the course of the corporation into the future, ever striving to maintain the high quality of entertainment for which he will be remembered for as long as there are people to read his wondrous stories.
This video features clips commemorating the corporation's centennial from Burroughs family members, staff of the corporation, and others involved in continuing the legacy of the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
00:06 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Board of Directors
01:08 The Offices of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. – 1970's
02:20 Danton Burroughs – 1970's
03:03 John Ralston Burroughs
06:49 Dejah and Llana Jane Burroughs
08:33 Kathleen Bonnaud
10:18 Jim Sullos
13:27 Cathy Wilbanks
15:25 Christopher Paul Carey
17:15 Janet Mann, Charlotte Wilbanks and Cathy Wilbanks
...of what was "steampunk" long before the term was coined!
...of a key Wold Newton Universe novel!
...of a seminal crossover novel by one of the masters of the genre!
Don't let your Philip José Farmer collection go without this new unique edition that also includes Jules Verne's Around the World in Eight Days...
The limited edition hardcover includes:
Leatherette cover with gold foil stamping
Custom printed end papers
Illustrated signature page in color, signed by contributors Win Scott Eckert, Henry Franke, Dennis Power, and cover artist M. S. Corley!
BOTH the limited edition hardcover and the trade paperback include:
Farmer’s Foreword and Introduction (as included in all prior editions of Other Log)
“A Submersible Subterfuge, or, Proof Impositive” by H. W. Starr (as included in all prior editions of Other Log)
“Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages Around the World” by Jules Verne expert Henry G. Franke III
“Only a Coincidence: Phileas Fogg, Philip José Farmer, and the Wold Newton Family” by Farmer and Wold Newton Family expert Win Scott Eckert—including a family tree graphic showing Philip José Farmer’s place in the Wold Newton Family!
“A Chronology of Major Events Pertinent to The Other Log of Phileas Fogg” by Win Scott Eckert
Also included are two bonus stories, set in the latter part of the novel when Fogg and company are traveling across the midwestern United States:
“Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler” by Win Scott Eckert
“Passing through the Hands of Steel” by Dennis E. Power
In addition, by arrangement with artist Rick J. Bryant, we have included his original interior illustrations originally published in the 1982 TOR Books edition of Other Log!
Korak is back in his first novel-length adventure since 1916’s The Son of Tarzan
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (Tarzana, California) A brand-new Super-Arc in the groundbreaking Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series launches with Korak at the Earth’s Core by Win Scott Eckert! All three novels of the Dead Moon Super-Arc will be written by Eckert and encompass an epic, interconnected saga featuring the daring family members of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary Lord of the Jungle in the savage inner world of Pellucidar.
Preorders of Korak at the Earth’s Coremay now be placed directly from ERB, Inc. Softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a limited Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate, will be available in a simultaneous release. Korak at the Earth’s Core features gorgeous wraparound cover art by the renowned artist E. M. Gist.
The novel is expected to ship to customers in February 2024.
The Dead Moon Super-Arc Begins...
Korak the Killer, jungle-raised son of Tarzan of the Apes, sets off into the wilds of the prehistoric world at the Earth’s core to rescue his daughter Suzanne Clayton, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow. But when the airship O-220 is hijacked, Korak and his Mangani friend Akut are stranded and must fight their way across the perilous lands and seas of Pellucidar. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Korak’s mate Meriem, also racing to save Suzanne, risks everything in a perilous gambit to quickly reach the inner world.
And what of the enigmatic Dead Moon, the pendant world that hangs eternally above the Land of Awful Shadow and is taboo to the Stone Age peoples of Pellucidar? Will the Dead World give up its secrets as Korak and Meriem search for Suzanne—or will it spell their doom?
When citizens on the far frontier of the Federated Kingdoms of Pellucidar begin to go missing, a lone warrior with nothing left to lose sets off to investigate. But the dark secret he finds lying in the Charnel Caves beneath the Forest of Death will lay bare the past he seeks to escape and awaken that for which he could never be prepared.
San Diego ComicCon 2023... and the Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. panel held on Friday, July 22, 2023, displayed this teaser slide for....
Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!
Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, cover artist E.M. Gist, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Book One will be announced for pre-order in a couple of months (as of the date of this writing, July 25, 2023) from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.
The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR:
In the early 1970s, Tarzan’s jungle-raised son Korak sets of into the wilds of Pellucidar (the hollow earth that Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series) to rescue his daughter Suzanne, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow.
Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.
Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR: LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter), Korak's grandson (a new character), and a major new Waziri character
Book Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and Jane
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It's official! Announced at San Diego ComicCon 2022!
Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!
I'm so excited to be writing this trilogy! Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! Book One is coming out next year from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.
The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR, and will send Tarzan’s son Korak to the inner world at the Earth’s core, a land Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series.
Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.
Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR: LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter), Korak's grandson (a new character), and a major new Waziri character
Book Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and Jane
Sign up for the Edgar Rice Burroughs email newsletter (top right corner of main page on www.edgarriceburroughs.com) to keep up with the latest release information!
Disclaimer: I was given an uncorrected advance proof of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Jeffrey J. Mariotte enters the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe with a six-gun bang! Mariotte accurately captures Tarzan’s discomfort—and amusement—at 1930s Los Angeles “civilization,” and when danger rears its head, the Lord of the Jungle doesn’t hesitate to dive in headfirst—headfirst into the Arizona desert, an environment markedly different from the lush jungles to which the ape-man is accustomed.
Using equally his wits, brawn, natural instinct for survival, and ability to commune with nature and nature’s creatures, Tarzan roars to the rescue in what is essentially a Western. A Western replete with a lost city, Indigenous Peoples’ mysticism, and train-robber bandits-cum-gangsters. Burroughs was no stranger to Westerns and it’s nice to see Tarzan and the Western motifs blended so seamlessly.
Add to that, the tale is set squarely in continuity (aka the “expanded canon” which is the trademark of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series), taking place immediately after Lord Greystoke’s visit to Hollywood at the tail end of TARZAN AND THE LION MAN, and readers are given a delightful lagniappe when Tarzan visits Burroughs himself at the Tarzana Ranch…all in all a fantastic 5-star read!
His vision of Doc Savage was a huge part of my childhood (and ongoing) obsession with the character. While I understand that Baumhoffer’s portrayal of Doc on the original 1930s pulp magazine covers may be more accurate, when I read Doc novels, I see Bama’s version in my mind’s eye. I can’t help it.
US $23 tpb/$65 hc 5.5×8.5, 204 pages Trade Paperback Limited Edition of 200 Hardcover copies
Somewhere in the unexplored heart of Africa, a part of this Earth had been taken over by an intelligence from outer space. Such was the message that reached the explorer Hareton Ironcastle, member of the famous Baltimore Gun Club. In that hidden and transformed valley would now be found monsters and pre-humans not to be seen anywhere else. Such a challenge could not be ignored…
The account of Ironcastle’s expedition of daring but inexperienced amateurs became one of the classic novels of the French writer, J.-H. Rosny aîné, who was a contemporary of Verne, Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Philip José Farmer, Hugo winner and chronicler of the adventures of Tarzan and Doc Savage, translated and retold Rosny’s 1922 novel, L’étonnant voyage de Hareton Ironcastle, making it a marvelous adventure novel to stand alongside the works of Burroughs, Haggard, and Farmer himself. Farmer’s 1976 version, published in paperback only, followed Rosny judiciously, while adding certain surprising embellishments of his own.
This handsome new edition boasts the same stunning cover art and six interior illustrations as the original paperback—by the legendary Roy G. Krenkel!
Curiously, the 1976 edition featured only a tiny sample of Krenkel’s painting, making this the first edition to feature the entire magnificent cover art. Honoring Krenkel’s original art, the Meteor House limited edition hardcover is presented unadorned—that is, no title and byline will cover any portion of Krenkel’s stunning artwork.
Bonus Features:
Brian Stableford, a prolific British science fiction author who has in recent years translated many of Rosny’s works from French to English for Black Coat Press, has provided an introduction to this edition of Ironcastle.
Published with Ironcastle for the first time is the short story sequel, “Iron and Bronze: A Hareton Ironcastle and Doc Ardan Adventure,” by Farmer and pulp-lit experts Christopher Paul Carey and Win Scott Eckert.
Taduki-inspired visions draw an intrepid adventurer and a madman to a lost African outpost of Atlantis where they must confront an ancient mystery from the stars… Drawing on diverse sources such as Jules Verne’s The Barsac Misison, H. Rider Haggard’s She and Allan, Guy d’Armen’s Doc Ardan (who has been called the “French Doc Savage”), J.-H. Rosny âiné’s L’étonnant voyage de Hareton Ironcastle, Pierre Benoit’s L’Atlantide (The Queen of Atlantis), and Philip José Farmer’s own “monomyth,” “Iron and Bronze” hearkens back the classic SF adventure pulps of the 1920s and ’30s.
Also in this edition, Christopher Paul Carey pens an insightful foreword explaining how IRONCASTLE ties into the "Farmerian Monomyth," and Win Scott Eckert provides a short afterword covering Farmer’s “surprising embellishments” related to the Wold Newton Family.
This book is available in a Trade Paperback and Signed Hardcover Limited Editions (signed by Stableford, Carey, and Eckert). The hardcover features a leatherette cover with gold foil stamping and custom printed color end papers—a high quality collectible in the tradition of Meteor House’s prior limited edition hardcovers. We’re taking preorders now and both editions will ship in June 2022.
The trade paperback edition is $23 (plus shipping).
The signed hardcover limited edition is $65 (plus shipping).
Or you can buy them together for only $83 (plus a further discount with combined shipping)!
“This translation (or rather 'retold', sometimes even the term 'embellishment' is used) by P.-J. Farmer deserves to be... translated into French! I haven't changed my mind, this version of Philip José Farmer is simply excellent!!!"
"In addition to the novel by J.-H. Rosny, Meteor House has the good sense to add an introduction by Brian Stableford, 'Iron and Bronze: A Hareton Ironcastle and Doc Ardan Adventure', by Christopher Paul Carey and Win Scott Eckert, as well as an afterword by Win Scott Eckert.... 'De Fer et de bronze' ('Iron and Bronze') is in my Top 10 of the best literary tributes to J.-H. Rosny!"
Come to this year’s ERBFest to learn all of the latest news and ideas coming from the fertile minds at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Incorporated.
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