The Captain of the Polestar

First published	January 1883
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novelette

The diary of the doctor of a fishing vessel in the polar seas off the coast of Greenland records the determination of the captain to continue the voyage despite the fight against the weather and the depredations of a strange beast seen only in brief glimpses.

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Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
January 1883	Temple Bar, January 1883		MAGAZINE	33
October 1887	Dreamland and Ghostland: An Original Collection of Tales and Warnings from the Borderland of Substance and Shadow ; Embracing Remarkable Dreams, Presentiments, and Coincidences ; Records of Singular Personal Experience by Various Writers ; Startling Stories from Individual and Family History ; Mysterious Incidents from the Lives of Living Narrators ; and Some Psychological Studies, Grave and Gay (Vol. III.)	George Redway	Anthology	183
November 1888	Ghost Stories and Presentiments	George Redway	Anthology	183
1890	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Longmans, Green and Co.	Collection	1
1891	The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales	Bernhard Tauchnitz	Collection	9
1892	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Longmans, Green and Co.	Collection	1
1893	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Longmans, Green and Co.	Collection	1
July 1893	Tit-Bits, 15 July 1893	George Newnes	MAGAZINE
July 1893	Tit-Bits, 22 July 1893	George Newnes	MAGAZINE
July 1893	Tit-Bits, 29 July 1893	George Newnes	MAGAZINE
August 1893	Tit-Bits, 5 August 1893	George Newnes	MAGAZINE
September 1894	The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Stories	Rand McNally & Company	Collection	31
February 1904	Good Literature, February 1904	F. M. Lupton	MAGAZINE
1911	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Longmans, Green and Co.	Collection
1912	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Smith, Elder & Co.	Collection	1
1914	The Captain of the Pole-Star	Hodder & Stoughton	Collection	11
January 1914	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Hodder & Stoughton	Collection	11
1922	Tales of Pirates and Blue Water	John Murray	Collection	153
1925	The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates	George H. Doran	Collection	130
June 1929	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
April 1931	Ghost Stories, April 1931	Good Story Magazine Co.	MAGAZINE	24
October 1939	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
December 1940	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
December 1945	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection	336
March 1949	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
August 1951	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
November 1956	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection
August 1960	The Conan Doyle Stories	John Murray	Collection	336
June 1967	Horror Times Ten	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	58
June 1968	Horror Times Ten	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	58
January 1969	Horror Times Ten	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	58
1971	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Books for Libraries Press	Collection	1
December 1971	Horror Times Ten	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	58
February 1972	Horror Times Ten	Berkley Medallion	Anthology	58
August 1974	Sea Tales of Terror	Fontana	Anthology	47
May 1975	Sea Tales of Terror	Fontana	Anthology	47
1979	The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle	Dover Publications	Collection	15
August 1979	The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle	Dover Publications	Collection	15
1981	L'horreur des altitudes	Union générale d'éditions	Collection	177
February 1983	Der Kapitän der Polestar und andere unheimliche Abenteuer	Bastei Lübbe	Collection	7
1987	L'horreur des altitudes	Union générale d'éditions	Collection
September 1987	Il capitano della Stella Polare	Fanucci Editore	Collection	97
April 1988	The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	W. Foulsham & Co.	Collection	22
March 1989	The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle	Academy Chicago	Collection	1
March 1989	Les exploits du Pr Challenger et autres aventures étranges	Robert Laffont	Omnibus	989
June 1989	The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle	Amereon House	Collection	15
1991	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press	Anthology	283
1991	Spooky Sea Stories	Yankee Books	Anthology	100
1991	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press	Anthology	283
October 1991	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press / BOMC	Anthology
October 1991	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press	Anthology	283
1992	Kun Maa kirkui ja muita epätavallisia tarinoita	Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö	Collection	94
October 1992	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press	Anthology
October 1992	Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology	Oxford University Press / QPBC	Anthology
May 1994	Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep	Barnes & Noble Books	Anthology	15
2000	The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Gramercy Books	Collection
2001	Classic Tales of the Supernatural	Arcturus Publishing	Anthology	219
2002	Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural	Gramercy Books	Anthology	219
2003	The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories	Oxford University Press	Anthology	283
2004	The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories	Wordsworth Editions	Anthology	211
May 2004	The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction	Ash-Tree Press	Collection	16
2005	The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle	Academy Chicago	Collection
August 2006	H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself	Pegasus Books	Anthology
September 2006	H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself	Pegasus Books	Anthology	391
June 2007	H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 19 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself	Fall River Press	Anthology	265
July 2008	The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales	Project Gutenberg	Collection	\|1
2009	Vampire Stories	Skyhorse Publishing	Collection	12
2010	The Speculative Conan Doyle	Coachwhip Publications	Collection	20
2010	The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales	Fall River Press	Collection	1
December 2010	The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates	Project Gutenberg	Collection	\|8
2011	The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories	Fall River Press	Anthology	63
2011	Jobb nem firtatni	Delta Vision Kft.	Collection	157
November 2011	Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 15	LibriVox	Anthology	\|14
February 2012	The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction	Ash-Tree Press	Collection	\|16
February 2012	The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction	Ash-Tree Press	Collection	\|16
March 2012	The Conan Doyle Weirdbook	Theaker's Paperback Library	Collection
August 2014	The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories	Bloomsbury USA	Anthology	\|12
2016	The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle	Dover Publications	Collection	15
July 2016	Tales of Pirates and Blue Water	Jazzybee Verlag	Collection	68
October 2016	Gothic Tales	Oxford University Press	Collection
October 2016	Gothic Tales	Oxford University Press	Collection
November 2016	The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories	Valancourt Books	Anthology	255
November 2016	The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories	Valancourt Books	Anthology	255
July 2017	Ghostly Tales	Chronicle Books	Anthology	95
October 2017	Classic Ghost Stories	Vintage (UK)	Anthology	153
March 2018	Gothic Tales	Oxford University Press	Collection	10
April 2021	Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories	Flame Tree Press	Anthology	103
May 2021	The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror	Poisoned Pen Press	Collection	\|4
May 2021	The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror	Poisoned Pen Press	Collection	\|4
November 2022	Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World's Ends	British Library Publishing	Anthology	121
October 2023	The Captain of the Polestar	Biblioasis	Chapbook

The Captain of the Polestar

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