The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: August 1986 (Volume 71, Number 2)
Cover by Bryn Barnard ("Born from the Beast.")

Novella: "Born from the Beast" by Vance Aandahl,

Novelet: "Trick" by Augustine Funnell.

Stories: "First I Came to Los Angeles" by Neil W. Hiller
"By the River, Fontainebleau" by Stephen Gallagher
"Something in the Blood" by Richard L. Purtill
"In the Hour Before Dawn" by Brad Strickland
"Crystal" by Charles L. Grant.

Science: "The Consequences of Pie" by Isaac Asimov.