Make one’s flesh/skin creep

Describes the sensation of fear and is most often attributed to Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (1726), “Something in their countenance made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express.” Leigh Hunt used the expression in his London Journal 27 August 1834, “Upon my soul, you make my flesh creep on my bones.” So did Charles Dickens in Pickwick Papers (c.1836) Chapter 8, “I wants to make your flesh creep.” Makes one’s skin creep or crawl is a variation that dates from c. 1800.