Day 199 1/10/14: Peter Benchley’s Working Titles for JAWS

I am doing my homework, preparing for the February 22 benefit reading (JAWS: An Evening of Relentless Terror And Really Awkward Sex) and I stumbled on Peter Benchley’s early working titles for his novel.  Think how different all of our lives would be if JAWS had been called:

The Grinning Fish

Letter on Mundus

Leviathan Rising

Throwback

The Coming

Horror

Haunt

The Fish

Phosphorescence

Looming

Clam Bay

Spectre

The Edge of Gloom

Maw

Endurance

Tumult

Shadow

The Survivor

The Unexplained

Penance

Hunger

Survival

Messenger

Dues

Ripple

HOOPER/CLASPER

What have we done?
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