Yours Cruelly, Elvira Choose Your Own in a two-family brownstone

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an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic

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Multi award-winning and nominated for the Spiel des Jahres—Game of the Year

Yours Cruelly, Elvira Choose Your Own in a two-family brownstoneThe 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. 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. Third degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good.