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Arcana (convention)

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Arcana is a long-running horror convention that bills itself as "a convention of the dark fantastic." Arcana is held annually in late September or early October in St. Paul, Minnesota and typically features a famous author or artist from the dark fantasy genre as its guest of honor. [1]

85 relations: Bandana Square, Benjamin Percy, Best Western, BR549, Bride of Frankenstein, Carl Richard Jacobi, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Clifford D. Simak, David Drake, David G. Hartwell, David J. Skal, Dennis Etchison, Doc Savage, Donald Wandrei, Dracula (1931 English-language film), Eleanor Arnason, Emma Bull, F. Paul Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fawcett Publications, Frankenstein (1931 film), Freaks, Fritz Leiber, Gahan Wilson, George Clayton Johnson, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Gordon R. Dickson, Hannes Bok, Holiday Inn Express, Horror convention, Howard Wandrei, Joe Bob Briggs, Joe R. Lansdale, John Sladek, Karl Edward Wagner, Kathe Koja, Kim Harrison, Kirby McCauley, Kung Fu (TV series), Kwaidan (film), Logan's Run, Melanie Tem, Midway Stadium, Minicon, Minnesota State Fair, Neil Gaiman, Norman Saunders, Ocean's 11, P. C. Hodgell, Peter Cushing, ..., Poul Anderson, Ramsey Campbell, Repairman Jack, Richard A. Lupoff, Richard L. Tierney, Robert Bloch, Robert M. Price, Robert Weinberg, Rod Serling, Roy C. Booth, Ruth Berman, S. T. Joshi, Saint Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Saints, Star Trek: The Original Series, Stephen Jones (author), Steve Rasnic Tem, Steven Brust, Street of Crocodiles, Terry Gilliam, The Devil-Doll, The Haunting (1963 film), The Invisible Man (1933 film), The Mummy (1932 film), The Mummy (1959 film), The Mummy's Hand, The Seventh Victim, The Shadow, The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Unknown (1927 film), Tim Kirk, Tim Powers, Vincent Price, Will Shetterly, William F. Nolan. Expand index (35 more) »

Bandana Square

Bandana Square, formerly the Como Shops of the Northern Pacific Railway, is now an office center, but it was originally designed to be an enclosed shopping center in the Energy Park neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy (born March 28, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter.

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Best Western

Best Western International, Inc., operator of the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, operates over 4,100 hotels and motels worldwide.

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BR549

BR549 (originally spelled BR5-49) was an American country music band.

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a 1935 American science-fiction horror film, the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 hit Frankenstein.

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Carl Richard Jacobi

Carl Richard Jacobi (July 10, 1908 – August 25, 1997) was an American journalist and author.

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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer.

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Clifford D. Simak

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.

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David Drake

David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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David G. Hartwell

David Geddes Hartwell (July 10, 1941 – January 20, 2016) was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels.

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David J. Skal

David John Skal (born June 21, 1952 in Garfield Heights, Ohio) is an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films and horror literature.

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Dennis Etchison

Dennis William Etchison (born March 30, 1943) is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as "rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world". Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison "one hell of a fiction writer" and he has been called "the most original living horror writer in America" (The Viking-Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural). While he has achieved some acclaim as a novelist, it is his work in the short story format that is especially well-regarded by critics and genre fans. He was President of Horror Writers Association from 1992 to 1994. He is a multi-award winner, having won the British Fantasy Award three times for fiction, and the World Fantasy Award for anthologies he edited.

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Doc Savage

Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Donald Wandrei

Donald Albert Wandrei (April 20, 1908 – October 15, 1987).

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Dracula (1931 English-language film)

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.

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Eleanor Arnason

Eleanor Atwood Arnason (born December 28, 1942) is an American author of science fiction novels and short stories.

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Emma Bull

Emma Bull (born December 13, 1954) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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F. Paul Wilson

Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Fawcett Publications

Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940).

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Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and adapted from the play by Peggy Webling (which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley), about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity, but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer's brain.

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Freaks

Freaks is a 1932 American MGM pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930) is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations.

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George Clayton Johnson

George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer, best known for co-writing with William F. Nolan the novel Logan's Run, the basis for the MGM 1976 film.

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Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction.

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Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer.

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Hannes Bok

Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard (July 2, 1914 – April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry.

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Holiday Inn Express

Holiday Inn Express is a mid-priced hotel chain within the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands.

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Horror convention

Horror conventions are gatherings of the community of fans of various forms of horror including horror cinema, goth lifestyle, and occasionally science fiction and fantasy.

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Howard Wandrei

Howard Elmer Wandrei (September 24, 1909 – September 5, 1956).

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Joe Bob Briggs

John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer, and comic performer.

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Joe R. Lansdale

Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor.

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John Sladek

John Thomas Sladek (December 15, 1937 – March 10, 2000) was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.

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Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist.

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Kathe Koja

Kathe Koja (born 1960) is an American writer.

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Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison is a pen-name of American author Dawn Cook.

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Kirby McCauley

Kirby McCauley (September 11, 1941 – August 30, 2014) was an American literary agent and editor based in New York City.

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Kung Fu (TV series)

Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine.

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Kwaidan (film)

is a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

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Logan's Run

Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

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Melanie Tem

Melanie Tem (née Kubachko; April 11, 1949 – February 9, 2015) was an American horror and dark fantasy author.

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Midway Stadium

Midway Stadium is the name of two different minor league baseball parks in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, both now demolished.

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Minicon

Minicon is a science fiction and fantasy convention in Minneapolis usually held on Easter weekend.

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Minnesota State Fair

The Minnesota State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Norman Saunders

Norman Blaine Saunders (January 1, 1907 – March 7, 1989) was a prolific 20th-century American commercial artist.

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Ocean's 11

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five of the Rat Pack: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

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P. C. Hodgell

Patricia "Pat" Christine Hodgell (born March 16, 1951) is an American fantasy writer, artist and professor.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years.

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Repairman Jack

Repairman Jack is a character in a series of novels by F. Paul Wilson.

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Richard A. Lupoff

Richard Allen Lupoff (born February 21, 1935) is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews.

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Richard L. Tierney

Richard Louis Tierney (born August 7, 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Robert M. Price

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus. A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. Secular Student Alliance, accessed April 15, 2010. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.

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Robert Weinberg

Robert Allan Weinberg (born November 11, 1942) is a biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Professor.

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Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science-fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone.

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Roy C. Booth

Roy C. Booth (born August 26, 1965) is a United States speculative fiction, fantasy and horror author.

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Ruth Berman

Ruth Berman is a writer of short science fiction and speculative poetry.

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S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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St. Paul Saints

The St.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Stephen Jones (author)

Stephen Jones (born 4 November 1953 in Pimlico, London) is an English editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of H. P. Lovecraft's early British publications.

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Steve Rasnic Tem

Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author.

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Steven Brust

Steven Karl Zoltán Brust (born November 23, 1955) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent.

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Street of Crocodiles

Street of Crocodiles is a 21-minute-long stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll (1936) is a horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring a cross-dressing Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan as his daughter, Lorraine Lavond.

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The Haunting (1963 film)

The Haunting is a 1963 British psychological horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise and adapted by Nelson Gidding from the 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

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The Invisible Man (1933 film)

The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale.

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The Mummy (1932 film)

The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund.

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The Mummy (1959 film)

The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

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The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand is a 1940 black-and-white horror film produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Studios.

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The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim is a 1943 American horror film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont.

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The Shadow

The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media.

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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone (also marketed as Twilight Zone, sans "The") is an American science fiction horror fantasy anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964.

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The Unknown (1927 film)

The Unknown is a 1927 American silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.

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Tim Kirk

Tim Kirk is both a professional artist and an American fan artist.

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Tim Powers

Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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Will Shetterly

Will Shetterly (born 1955) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his novel Dogland (1997).

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William F. Nolan

William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcana_(convention)

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