Tap Tap

Something is tapping. It isn't stopping.

At first, it's nothing. A faint, irregular sound—easy to dismiss, easy to explain away.

But it keeps coming back.

Day after day, night after night, the tapping settles into the edges of life. It starts to feel deliberate. Timed. Not random at all.

Attempts to locate it fail. Attempts to ignore it fail faster.

Because the worst part isn't the sound.

It's the growing sense that it wants something.

And that answering it might be the point where things stop being safe.

Tap Tap is a quiet, escalating horror story about attention, denial, and the moment ordinary life shifts—just slightly—into something you can't undo.

No gore. No spectacle. Just the slow certainty that something is wrong… and getting closer.

This is the first release in an ongoing monthly series of short horror fiction by Tamsin Peake from House of Sharky Press.