Though she’s spent more than 40 years as a spooky and sexy icon, Cassandra Peterson ― better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark ― admits she’s felt a bit scared by the real world as of late, and not simply because Halloween season is in full swing. “I feel pretty darn good about my career ― it’s still going, and I’m just kind of home free,” she told HuffPost in an interview. As for what’s been recently giving her a fright, she added, “Politics ... that’s a scary consideration for not only me,