Imaginative Tales, May 1956

This May 1956 issue of Imaginative Tales features the 20,000-word science fiction novel "Gateway to Infinity" by Darius John Granger. The complete story concerns Jeremy Armitage, a penniless Earth youth stranded on Kadwon, the "Gateway World" where countless pilgrims seek an elixir of immortality. After his uncle dies seeking this elixir, a predatory Vegan undertaker exploits Jeremy's poverty to bind him into servitude. The issue also includes six additional stories: "The Final Quarry" (8,000 words) by Adam Chase, "The Case of the Stripped Blonde" (6,000 words) by Ivar Jorgensen, "It Fell From the Sky" (2,000 words) by S. M. Tenneshaw, "Intruder from the Void" (4,000 words) by Milton Lesser, "A Town for Mr. Snitzel" (3,000 words) by Stephen Wilder, and "No Cause for Alarm" (1,500 words) by Dick Purcell. The issue also includes an editorial on flying saucer reports by an editor who was involved with Amazing Stories during the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sightings.