Roderick Desmond

Roderick Desmond is a fictional character, the protagonist and title character of Philip Jose Farmer's 1979 short story "The Freshman".
Desmond is a well-known writer of horror novels from Busiris, Illinois, who, despite being 60 years old, is enrolling as a freshman at Miskatonic University. By entering college, he hopes to escape the control of his domineering mother, but he worries that she will follow him even there.
Category:Humans
Category:Characters Originating From Expanded Mythos Works