Distributed by McFarlane Toys in July 2001, the series included six monsters designed by horror author Clive Barker.
These are figures you put in a dark place in your house, probably with some votive candles, to haunt a corner in your home.
Due to the success of the idea, a second series titled Tortured Souls 2: The Fallen was released the following year.
Tortured Souls is a novelette written by Clive Barker and included with the toyline.
[2] A film adaptation, Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae, was announced as in development at Universal Pictures in 2001,[3] but had been more-or-less abandoned by 2006.