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Welcome to the website for PSFS, the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society!
We are a membership-based organization of science fiction and fantasy fans based in Philadelphia, PA. PSFS had its first meeting in 1936, making us one of the oldest science fiction groups in the world. We are open to anyone interested in science fiction, fantasy, or horror, in all media from the written word to movies, TV, comics, games and gaming, and visual art.
We’d love to hear from you! To ask a question and tell us more about your interests, email info@psfs.org.
Join us for our May meeting featuring S. T. Joshi, the multi-award winning critic and editor, and renowned expert on H. P. Lovecraft. The meeting is Friday, May 8 at 8 pm, This is a virtual event. Email info@psfs.org for the Zoom link!
S. T. Joshi is a widely published and award-winning critic and editor, and a leading expert in H. P. Lovecraft and Supernatural Fiction.
His work on Lovecraft includes the standard edition of Lovecraft’s collected fiction, as well as a volume of his complete poetical works, his collected essays, several critical anthologies, annotated editions of his tales, The Lovecraft Encyclopedia, and the biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, which won the British Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Another work, the two-volume Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, won two World Fantasy Awards, and other works have won the Locus and International Guild of Horror awards.
Joshi has also written extensively on other authors of Supernatural Fiction, including a bibliography and a biography on Lord Dunsany (Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination), a critical study of Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction), and editions of the work of Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers. He is the editor of the semiannual magazine Penumbra.
Upcoming meeting schedule:
Friday May 8 8 pm Virtual, Guest Speaker S. T. Joshi
Friday June 19 8 pm In Person, Guest Speaker Ray Van Horn
Friday July 31 7:30 pm Annual Hugo Review Panel
August No meeting
Friday Sept. 18 8 pm In person, Guest Speaker John Ashmead