Baker's dozen Book

A collection of hideously mediocre novellas and short stories (not "novels" as its title claims), improved only by Daphne du Maurier's wonderfully macabre "Don't Look Now", which isn't even a mystery story at all, but a horror/fantasy one. (The movie of the same name is equally excellent.) The only other story that's even readable is Bill Pronzini's "Booktaker", and even that one is silly and trivial. Every other story in this collection is terrible - poorly written, contrived, forgettable, and superficial. Is this anthology a graveyard of failed novels that the authors tried to repackage as novellas? Did the editors let their enthusiasm for the genre override their taste? Perhaps the editors simply have poor taste themselves. Whatever the reason, this is one of the worst anthologies I've ever read.