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Matteo Curtoni

and so to dark...

About Me

Italian dark fiction/dark erotica/noir novelist and translator. Gothic.net & DarkEcho fiction contest winner, a short story selected for The Best of Gothic.net: Volume One. A bunch of short pieces and three novels published in my country, two of which under a pen name. Currently publishing bizarre true crime stories, weird fiction, interviews and an awful lot of other stuff on Noir, Italy's leading crime fiction/noir magazine. Some of the writers I've tranlated and I'm translating are Jack O'Connell, Ken Bruen, Douglas Coupland, James Lee Burke, John Ridley, Joe Hill and Katherine Dunn. Cat lover. Insomiac. Caffeine-addict. If you happen to be or to speak Italian or, what the hell, even if you don't, check out my website: matteocurtoni.com

Last but not least, mesdames et messieurs, a couple of stories in English for you: A ballad of strange meat and My eyes belong to the remains of her skin . Hope you'll like 'em.

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My Interests

cult quotes:

Language creates reality (Jack O'Connell); Je voudrais pas crever/Non monsieur non madame/Avant d'avoir tâté/Le goût qui me tourmente/Le goût qu'est le plus fort/Je voudrais pas crever/Avant d'avoir goûté/La saveur de la mort... (Boris Vian); The arts is a rotten business indeed (Jack Micheline); In Nothing We Trust (James Turner); Même si tu as eu la sottise de te montrer, sois tranquille, ils ne te voient pas (Henri Michaux); Sometimes our secrets are all we've got (Nick Cave); Shut down the Third World - they lose, you win. Shut down America - you lose, they win. The more things change, the more they stay the same (John Carpenter); Your mind is a weapon: use it (Brian Wood)

Music:

way too many but here's a few:

Rob Zombie, Queenadreena, Dead Can Dance, Harley Poe, :Wumpscut:, Calibretto, The Dead Brothers, Deltahead, Depeche Mode, 16 Horsepower, O'Death, Adjagas, Woven Hand, The Killers, Crud, Stolen Babies, Those Poor Bastards, Murder By Death, Gogol Bordello, Puerto Muerto, The Sadies, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Dresden Dolls, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Love Is Colder Than Death, Autumn Tears, Arcana, Miranda Sex Garden, Mors Syphilitica, Siouxsie, Suicide Commando, Holly Golightly & The Brakeoffs, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Type-O-Negative, Jack Off Jill, Scarling, Venus Bleeding, Bad Religion, Flesheaters, AC/DC, Jude's Hammer, Bauhaus, Iggy & The Stooges, The Hives, The Cramps, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Movies:

way too many but here's a few:

David Lynch, Alexandre Aja, Rob Zombie, Park Chanwook, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, John Carpenter, William Friedkin, David Cronenberg, Mel Brooks, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, M. Night Shyamalan, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joel & Ethan Coen, Woody Allen, Brian De Palma, Terry Gilliam, Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino, Fritz Lang, Tim Burton

Television:

X-Files, Millennium, Battlestar Galactica, Six Feet Under, The Shield, 24, Deadwood, Dexter, City Of Men, Little Britain, The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Futurama, Samurai Jack

Books:

way too many but here's a few:

Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Queneau, Stephen King, Jack O'Connell, Frank Miller, Boris Vian, John Fante, William Faulkner, Roman Dirge, Katherine Dunn, Mick Jackson, Max Brooks, Mel Gordon, Will Christopher Baer, Alan Moore, Pete Dexter, Harry Crews, Tom Piccirilli, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Christa Faust, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite, Jim Nisbet, James Lee Burke, Barry Hannah, Marc Hartzman, Brian Wood, Raymond Chandler, Jack Kerouac, Giorgio Scerbanenco, Lydia Millet, Douglas Coupland, Wislawa Szymborska, Raymond Carver, Mickey Spillane, Pierre Magnan, José Pablo Feinmann, César Aira, Mervyn Peake, Charles Addams, James Carlos Blake, Kathe Koja, David Niall Wilson, Clive Barker, Rob Hardin, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Joseph Campbell, Ian McEwan, Neil Simon, Flannery O'Connor, Donald Ray Pollock, e. e. cummings, William Bourroughs, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Giovanni Arduino, Edward Gorey