Arcana
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(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.
| 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 | Brian Forrest. Postponed due to Covid. Held in conjunction with Decongestant 5. | |
| Canceled. |
| Convention | |
| 1971— |
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