Arcana

(Did you mean the Harry Honig fanzine?)

A small convention devoted to the "dark fantastic" held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, during the early Fall. It presents the Minnesota Fantasy Award. It began in 1971 and was originally (and quite inexplicably) called MinnCon but the confusion with the larger and older local convention, Minicon, led the organizers to finally change the name to Arcana while retaining the numbering.

It is currently on hiatus.

Website.

Convention	Date	GoHs, Notes
MinnCon 1	1971
Arcana 18	October 7-9, 1988	Robert Weinberg, Don Herron
Arcana 19	October 6-8, 1989	Charles De Vet
Arcana 20	October 5-7, 1990	Richard Lupoff
Arcana 21	October 4-6, 1991	Harry O. Morris
Arcana 22	October 9-11, 1992	Robert Bloch
Arcana 23	October 10-12, 1993	Denis Etchison
Arcana 24	September 30-October 2, 1994	Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem
Arcana 25	September 22-24, 1995	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Arcana 26	October 4-6, 1996	David J. Skal, Richard A. Lupoff, publishers Fedogan & Bremer
Arcana 27	September 26-28, 1997	Neil Gaiman
Arcana 28	September 25-27, 1998	Joe R. Lansdale
Arcana 29	October 22-24, 1999	Ramsey Campbell
Arcana 30	September 15-17, 2000	David Drake
Arcana 31	September 28-30, 2001	Eleanor Arnason, Robert M. Price
Arcana 32	September 27-29, 2002	Joe-Bob Briggs
Arcana 33	September 26-28, 2003	Gahan Wilson
Arcana 34	October 1-3, 2004	Tim Powers
Arcana 35	October 7-9, 2005	Stephen Jones
Arcana 36	September 29-October 1, 2006	David Hartwell
Arcana 37	October 12-14, 2007	George Clayton Johnson
Arcana 38	October 17-19, 2008	F. Paul Wilson
Arcana 39	October 16-18, 2009	Kim Harrison
Arcana 40	October 15-17, 2010	P. C. Hodgell
Arcana 41	October 21-23, 2011
Arcana 42	October 19-21, 2012	S. T. Joshi
Arcana 43	October 18-20, 2013	Tim Kirk
Arcana 44	October 17-19, 2014	Anthony Tollin
Arcana 45	October 23-25, 2015	Benjamin Percy, Catherine Lundoff
Arcana 46	October 21-23, 2016	Kathe Koja
Arcana 47	September 29-October 1, 2017	William F. Nolan, Roy C. Booth, Cynthia Booth, Jason V. Brock & Sunni Brock
Arcana 48
Arcana 49	September 27–29, 2019	Held in conjunction with Decongestant 4.
Arcana 50	October 2-4, 2020 September 24–26, 2021 October 7-9, 2022	Brian Forrest. Postponed due to Covid. Held in conjunction with Decongestant 5.
Arcana 2023	October 6-8, 2023	Canceled.

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Convention
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