Halloween came early this year for the Queer community. Cassandra Peterson, the actress behind goth horror icon Elvira, has come out via her newly released memoir, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memories of the Mistress of the Dark.

SGN Contributing Writer Lindsey Anderson interviewed Isabel Sterling, author of this week's SGN Book Club selection, These Witches Don't Burn.

In this lively history of the Miss America pageant, how to wave is only the start of what a beauty queen had to learn.

Though the subject is normally quite morbid, author Kathy Benjamin puts the fun in funerals by making readers chuckle, in a shoulder-nudging way that lets us know it's okay if we don't necessarily want mourners crying beside our crypts.