The Sirens Podcast

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CHAPTER TWO is now live. 🖤📖

This chapter of Dreadfully Yours features guest Author J.L. Hyde — one of my earliest and most frequent author conversations over the years.

For this release, I’ve combined and remastered multiple conversations into one immersive chapter exploring Hyde’s dark and emotionally driven storytelling, including discussions surrounding “Delta County,” “Underground,” "Summer of '99," and "Magnolia Court."

This episode also feels especially meaningful to me because these conversations were part of the foundation that eventually grew into Dreadfully Yours itself.

If you love psychological suspense, atmospheric mysteries, flawed characters, and conversations about the craft of dark storytelling, Chapter Two is waiting for you.

🎙️ Dreadfully Yours: Conversations with Dark Storytellers

Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts or listen with the Captivate web player in the comments.

Over the years, one of my favorite things that has grown organically through Sirens has been my interviews with authors and storytellers. When I first started occasionally bringing authors onto the show, I never imagined that I would eventually have more than 20 author interview episodes — or that I would genuinely fall in love with that side of storytelling as much as I have.

As many of you know, I’m not only a true crime podcaster, but also an author, narrator, lifelong reader, and someone deeply passionate about dark storytelling in all its forms. Through these conversations, I realized something: this part of the show has grown into something much bigger than I originally intended.

Because of that, I’ve decided to launch a brand new podcast.

🖤 Dreadfully Yours, Raven Rollins: Conversations with Dark Storytellers

This new show will give me a dedicated space to continue conversations with authors, filmmakers, screenwriters, professors, narrators, songwriters, and creators whose stories linger long after the final page. Horror, thrillers, mystery, Southern Gothic, true crime writing, film, storytelling craft — all of the things I love most creatively will have a home there.

At the same time, I want to preserve the true crime core of Sirens and keep this show rooted in the advocacy, cases, victims, and investigations that it was built on.

To be clear: Sirens is NOT going anywhere.

In fact, if an interview is directly related to true crime or features a true crime author, those episodes will often be released simultaneously on both podcasts so listeners can continue finding them through Sirens as well.

This simply feels like the natural next chapter of something that has already been growing for years, and I’m incredibly excited to finally share it with all of you.

Dreadfully Yours is currently planned for release within the next couple of months, and I can’t wait to welcome you all into this new world with me.

Until the next chapter…

Dreadfully Yours,
Raven Rollins

Seven-year-old Athena Strand should have been safe at home.
Instead, on November 30, 2022, she vanished from outside her father’s property in Paradise, Texas, after a FedEx delivery driver came to the home. What followed became one of the most haunting child murder cases in recent memory — a case that would ultimately lead to the arrest, conviction, and death sentence of Tanner Horner.

In this episode, I walk through the timeline of Athena’s disappearance, the search efforts that gripped the community, the disturbing evidence shown during the capital murder sentencing trial, and the heartbreaking testimony from the people who loved Athena most.

Portions of audio featured in this episode come directly from the live trial proceedings, including testimony from Maitlyn Gandy and the Medical Examiner.

Listener discretion is strongly advised. This episode contains discussion of violence against a child, forensic testimony, and traumatic material.

Out now on Spotify and Apple. All other platforms will be updated within the next day or so. Direct link in comments.