I’m Trying to Exorcize the Evils from My Life

In the typical M.R. James story, a tweedy librarian inadvertently releases a ghastly spirit through his research into a rare antiquity. The lesson here is clear: digging up old artifacts from the dustbins of history is always a risky affair, for one knows not what sins from the past will thereby be unleashed upon the present. Dare you—for the sake of fashion—follow these Jamesian heroes into the potentially cursed world of occult archives?

Our “I’m Trying to Exorcize My Demons” t-shirt is emblazoned with images of devils and sinners dredged up from the subterranean collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Will our excavation of these evils be worth it, serving as an instructive example to encourage you to exorcize your own buried demons? Or, in unearthing these devilish images, have we inadvertently stained this cotton tee with a curse that will be impossible to wash out?