"The Terror from the Depths" is a short story by American writer Fritz Leiber, part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction.
The story begins with a note that this manuscript was found inside a container, which was sold at an auction.
The story's narrator is George Reuter Fischer, who was born on April 30, 1912, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Fischer's father is a mason and stonecutter, who moves his family to Vulture's Roost, California near Hollywood.
Years later, when Fischer is attending Miskatonic University, he's forced to leave the college soon after due to a combination of factors including nervousness, homesickness, actual ailment, increased hours of sleep, and sleepwalking.