


icon with “Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark.” The irresistible tell-all digs deeper than Hollywood dirt to examine Peterson’s circuitous path to stardom and reveal how private she has been. You know her as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the campy, vampy horror host who premiered on local television - KHJ-TV, Channel 9 - in 1981 with her own TV show, “Elvira’s Movie Macabre.” Everything about Elvira is over the top, designed as a sendup of Valley Girl stereotypes with a gothic aesthetic pitched somewhere between punk rock and “The Addams Family.”Īt 70, Peterson is finally lifting the veil on Elvira and putting herself in the spotlight as an L.A.
