![]() ![]() While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra played with model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn’t good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. Here’s the official synopsis for the 272-page book… ![]() You can pre-order your copy today through. The book is titled Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, and it’s releasing September 21, 2021. ![]() In the works for a while now, Elvira (aka Cassandra Peterson) has announced today that her official memoir is finally set for release, and it’s headed our way this Halloween season! ![]()
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