Genre: Biography and Memoir
Yours Cruelly, Elvira
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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 percent of her body. But she survived. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror.