According to the recipe menu, curse scroll needs:
sheet of paper + Alien/HQ Tormented Soul + Any void-tainted fish.
Not true!
I noticed that it shows only 3 available fish, even though I knew I had more than that. I went to the Combine menu and saw that I have 4 kinds of void-tainted fish: Yellow Ridgeback, Crimson Bream, Umber Monkfish, and Plaice. Only the Yellow Ridgeback worked for the Curse recipe! So the Recipe menu is lying about "Any void-tainted fish".
When the game is actually lying to the player, I consider that a much more serious issue than balance stuff. This is the definition of an unfinished product.