"Typhoon" is related to a number of Conrad's other tales that emphasize disasters and perils at sea, as well as the character of a particular captain or ship's , master in the English merchant service.

Included in this group are "Youth," The Nigger of the Narcissus, The End of the Tether (1903), and perhaps "The Secret Sharer" (1912; see separate entry), which, for all its concern about the fugitive representing Marlow's darker side, is also a story about the test of Marlow on his first voyage as a ship's captain. Readers can easily infer some conclusions about MacWhirr by comparing his behavior to other officers in Conrad's stories, including Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether.

Other Conrad titles which show some related concerns are Lord Jim (1900; see separate entry), also concerned in its early sections with the transfer of non-Europeans on a voyage through eastern waters and...