The actress who plays Elvira talks to Yahoo about being the queen of Halloween, but also aging out of her famed costume.

If you have a Mt. Rushmore of American Halloween icons, it's hard to argue against the cultural impact of Cassandra Peterson and her alter ego, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The goth icon helped to ...

NEW YORK – Cassandra Peterson has entertained Halloween lovers as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for more than four decades. Peterson developed the character in the 1980s, after leaving her career as a ...

The Mistress of the Dark brings personal details to light in a new comic.

It’s hard for Cassandra Peterson, known to most as the quick-witted and sexy antihero Elvira, to narrow down her favorite moments from four decades of live stage shows at Knott’s Scary Farm. Fronting ...

For those readers of a certain age who remember the kooky, campy, slinky, boobtastic, more-sexy-than-scary Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, her long-running horror movie screening series remains a camp ...

Unique and at times scandalous, Yours Cruelly, Elvira tells the story of a small-town girl's journey to becoming the world's most glamorous Hollywood Halloween icon. Elvira came to life in 1981, when ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (UPI) --Cassandra Peterson, who has played Elvira since 1981, released Elvira's Cookbook from Hell on Tuesday. The book contains recipes for breakfast, picnics, appetizers, ...

At 74, Cassandra Peterson has officially hung up the cleavage-exposing little black dress and teased-to-Transylvania wig she once wore to embody her alter ego, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. “People ...