Tickling in Mainstream Fiction

[Murph71]

Is anyone familiar with any mainstream short stories in which tickling is used as a plot device? As a teenager I was very lucky to come across a short story in a horror anthology titled Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, (reprint is titled The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural), by an author named Cornell Woolrich called The Screaming Laugh. Cornell Woolrich also wrote under the pseudonym William Irish and as such penned It Had to be Murder which was then turned into Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Pretty ballsy for a mainstream suspense writer to explore the world of tickling.

I don't want to give too much away for the uninitiated. Let's just say a married woman and her boyfriend attempt to extract some information from her much older husband. It's a solid, suspenseful, and slightly disturbing read.

Has anyone else come across this story or others they would like to share? I apologize if this is the wrong place to submit this thread, but it didn't seem appropriate for the Stories Forum.

 

[Journia]

I have come across only scenes, but my brother is writing a book about a certain british event and tickling abounds in the book.

 

[Murph71]

but my brother is writing a book about a certain british event and tickling abounds in the book.

Sweet. Has he been published in the past? Which british event is the focus of his story?

 

[Journia]

Sweet. Has he been published in the past? Which british event is the focus of his story?

The event is one which happened on July Seventh of last year.