ab ovo

ab ovo - adv - from the beginning

I'm not sure where to go with this entry. Perhaps a lame allusion to the Van Zandt absence in spite of her participation ab ovo.

grimoire

grimoire - n - A manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons).

While not strictly speaking a book for conjuring up spirits, John George Hohman's Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friend (German edition 1820; American editions, 1846, 1856) was a popular book of magic, especially in the southern United States. Manly Wade Wellman featured it in a number of weird stories, especially The Valley Was Still (1939), which was later turned into one of the better Twilight Zone episodes.