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Patrick designed the memorable fish man in the black-and-white, drive-in-ready, atomic-age tingler “Creature from the Black Lagoon.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

Instead, he had to settle for a race that Abbott called the "greatest spine tingler in Santa Anita history."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Last year, Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory,” from “Selma,” was a spine tingler, but, as the Grammys’ Mr. Ehrlich noted, “very few hit songs come out of movies anymore.”

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016

Then it's back to the top of Lady Liberty for the climax, a breakneck update of the finale to Hitchcock's 1942 tingler, Saboteur.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tingler wasn't a lethal weapon, but it could have unpleasant effects if used carelessly or hastily.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Aumonier, Stacy