Plus, comedian and horror aficionado Dana Gould shares the legend of Vampira and her gothic powerhouse presence during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Mistress of the Dark. Queen of Halloween. The ...

While it’s a new animated “Addams Family” film and actress Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. the spooky and kooky Elvira) has her new tell-all memoir published last month that have everyone buzzing this ...

The Mistress of the Dark didn't appreciate Galinda the Good's shade. Don't look now, but a tragic allegation of witch-on-witch violence has emerged. Cassandra Peterson, the woman behind the beloved ...

This episode Jason chats with Cassandra Peterson, who created and has inhabited the role of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark since she created the character as a revamped TV horror host with her show ...

Lonesome for a time when demented characters like Vampira, Elvira, and Morgus the Magnificent invaded late-night television bearing B-movie frights and cinematic shrieks? Those were the days when a ...

Halloween requires a mention of Astoria’s own Finnish wasp-waisted glamour ghoul, Vampira, aka Astoria High School graduate Maila Nurmi. In 1954 Los Angeles, she was the first late-night horror movie ...

Our favorite YouTube wormhole this shut-in Halloween has been digging up clips of classic horror hosts – creepily attired comics who’d crack jokes over bad horror flicks, usually for local TV stations ...