Overview

• Elvira’s Cookbook from Hell is available now and pairs spooky recipes with cocktails, crafts, and party-planning tips.
• In an interview, Peterson recounts a Turkey-less Thanksgiving she hosted with PETA in the early ’90s where River Phoenix arrived with his siblings, including a young Joaquin.
• She says Phoenix’s beanie fell into a corn casserole as he leaned in to smell it, and she served the dish after removing stray hairs.
• Peterson adds that the dinner took place in a haunted mansion she later sold to Brad Pitt, with guests including Melissa Etheridge, Linda Blair, Casey Kasem, and K.D. Lang.
• Speaking to ComicBook.com, she describes modeling the book on a lifestyle vision inspired by Martha Stewart and recalls a party moment where Dwayne Johnson playfully bowed after learning she was Elvira and Paul Reubens was Pee-wee.