"And back in those days, 25 percent of your body burned third-degree was considered not survivable," she said. Thirty-five percent of her body was covered in third-degree burns. "My mother was dying Easter eggs, and she was outside, and we had a bunch of eggs boiling in a big cast iron kettle on the stove," Peterson told WPR's " BETA." "I pulled a chair over, climbed up to look in at whatever was bubbling around there on the stove and must have lost my footing because I grabbed the pot and pulled it over on me," Peterson recalled. As she says, "the drama began only a year and a half into her life.” She's released a memoir, called " Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark." It’s a funny, touching, and ultimately revealing look at how a little girl from Manhattan, Kansas became a horror icon. Peterson hosted the popular syndicated TV series "Movie Macabre." She also co-wrote and starred in two feature films, "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" and "Elvira’s Haunted Hills."īut, there's so much more to Peterson's story than her alter ego. Cassandra Peterson has spent the last 40 years playing Elvira, the Queen of Halloween, and the self-proclaimed "Horror Hostess with the Mostess." And she's become a pop culture icon along the way.
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