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Elvira's World

Cassandra Peterson is pushing 60 and still Mistress of the Dark

So what happens, I ask, if the show doesn’t take off? Will you really be forced to squeeze into the Dress when you’re 90?

“I really, really would like to retire in about a year from now,” she says wistfully. In 2011, Peterson turns 60, while Elvira celebrates her 30-year anniversary. “Ahhh, but that really depends on what’s going on with the character. I’d rather go out when I’m on top and not when I’m, like, pathetic.

“I just have to wait and see how it plays out. But,” says the freak show-turned-showgirl-turned-global brand, “It would be nice to have a life.”

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