Episode 184 – Yours Cruelly, Elvira
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Hold on, Mariah, it’s still spooky season around here for a few more days. We read Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson and had a scary-good time getting to know the Mistress of the Dark (and her girlfriend)! Listen to this podcast while updating your list of enemies.
Content warning: This book and our discussion of it contains non-graphic discussions of child abuse, sexual assault, miscarriages, and old-fashioned light misogyny and racism.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Meet Teresa Wierson, Elvira’s Girlfriend of 19 Years” by Raffy Ermac
“Elvira: Tom Jones took my virginity, I needed stitches, and he ditched me” on CeleBitchy
Coming up next: The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the Queen of Halloween so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.9 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.1 | And for this episode, we read Yoursuelly Elvira by Cassandra Peterson |
| 0:24.9 | joining us to discuss this spooktacular memoir is the encroaching darkness hello darkness |
| 0:32.6 | that was just me doing mouth noises if that don't be alarmed |
| 0:44.5 | it occurs to me now and I'm thinking about what I just said that would have been a good |
| 0:49.0 | place for like a Simon and Garfunkel joke but al. Well, she's also the mistress of the dark. |
| 0:55.5 | We don't need men getting involved. |
| 0:57.9 | True, true. |
| 0:59.3 | There's been enough of that in Elvira's life. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.8 | If this wasn't clear, we don't have a guess. |
| 1:05.8 | It's just me and Kate, and of course, Dorite. |
| 1:08.7 | Yes. |
| 1:10.1 | And the darkness. |
| 1:15.4 | The darkness surrounding us as we lose our minds. |
| 1:17.7 | Cling to sanity. |
| 1:23.4 | If there's one thing like doing these guestless episodes will reveal, I think it's just the amount that having a guest sort of keeps us on track because we're like, oh, |
| 1:26.8 | there's someone else on the call. Like, let's get it together. And now we don't. We don't have them. Yeah. It's very easy when we don't have a guest for me to sign on to the call and be like, hey, my mental health in the toilet. How about yours? You two? Awesome. Let's go record something funny for people to listen |
| 1:46.1 | to. What? Let's, okay, so this book has been in the news lately because of the sort of, you know, |
| 1:57.1 | bombshell reveal in it that Cassandra Peterson, aka Alvira, by the way, it is pronounced |
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