R. Layamon is a fictional character who appears in Philip José Farmer's short story "The Freshman". Layamon is a professor at Miskatonic University, the chairman of the Committee of the Occult Arts and History Department and a powerful wizard. He is affiliated with the Lam Kha Alif fraternity.
Farmer provides a description of Layamon:
| “ | His face was a mass of wrinkles, gray dough that had been incised with fingernails and then pressed into somewhat human shape. The nose was a cuttlefish’s beak stuck into the dough. But the eyes beneath the white chaotic eyebrows were as alive as blood flowing from holes in the flesh. | „ |
Throughout the story, Layamon is pushing the new student Roderick Desmond to cross a moral line, to eliminate the "defects of character" that would keep him from fulfilling his arcane potential.