Beginning with the Blood of the Dragon CD in 2006, Vargo began a tradition of incorporating a quest or adventure within the album artwork and sometimes leaving clues in his narratives.

Based on the magic theme he initially explored with Theater of Illusion, the challenge of the game was to resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles in order to avoid spending eternity locked inside an inescapable mansion.

[22] Joseph Vargo explained Nox Arcana's style to a blogger from Gnostics.com: "Our music is mainly classically based instrumental, although we do incorporate chanting choirs and spoken narratives for dramatic effect to achieve a blend of darkly haunting melodies that encompass the complete gothic spectrum the romantic, the mysterious, and the horrific.

We utilize a variety of instruments such as piano, pipe organ, violin, acoustic guitar, drums and tolling bells to achieve symphonic orchestrations.

[7] Joseph Vargo's cover art for Nox Arcana's Transylvania album was featured as a full page in LIFE magazine's October 2021 issue, Vampires: Their Undying Appeal.

A number of professional performances of gothic plays, such as Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dracula and Richard III have featured music by Nox Arcana.

[31][32] In 2013, a young Corsican filmmaker Ariakina Ettori won first place in the L'Institut Régional du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel (IRCA) with her modern version of "Little Red Riding Hood" inspired by Nox Arcana's song "Night of the Wolf."

[9][36] Nox Arcana's music is featured exclusively on the TV show America Haunts for the Travel Channel, which has aired throughout the Halloween weekend each year since 2009.

The publishing company is owned by Joseph Vargo, who became world-renowned[46] as a gothic-fantasy artist in the early 1990s with work ranging from album covers and books to posters and other products.

[47] Before forming Nox Arcana in 2003, Joseph Vargo produced two albums for Midnight Syndicate[48][49] but left the band in 2000 to co-write Tales from the Dark Tower,[50] a book that follows the exploits of a vampire during the First Crusade.

Over the next 8 years, he published Dark Realms magazine, released a best-selling card deck, The Gothic Tarot,[51] and wrote a book based on his original story for Nox Arcana's debut album, Darklore Manor.