Destined to be a horror host, Elvira purges her secrets in new book
It was a recipe for tragedy.
Little Cassandra Peterson was 18 months old.
A cast iron pot of boiling water was on the stove.
Curious, she scaled a chair to investigate.
Oh no.
Cassandra came tumbling down. So did the pot of boiling water. She suffered third-degree burns over a third of her body. Hair on her head was “melted off” and her eyelids were fused shut. Patches of skin, peeled from other parts of her body, were grafted onto her back, shoulders, neck and ankles.
Can you imagine being a child and bearing the scars of that experience? Cassandra, who felt monster-ish, grew up to be the queen of Halloween.
Cassandra is better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Cassandra was born 70 years ago in Manhattan, Kansas. Elvira was born 40 years ago when the character debuted as the host of a weekly creature feature on a Los Angeles TV station. Elvira has since graduated to pop culture icon, and now you can find her on the New York Times bestseller list.
Peterson considered writing a book for years. Because the pandemic scotched personal appearances, she had time to sit down and craft an autobiography, titled “Yours Cruelly, Elvira.”
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