The Goblin Tower employs techniques that are familiar from Lest Darkness Fall (1941), and Rogue Queen (1951). As in the first novel, de Camp presents characters as social types, using them to describe his imaginary world. As in Rogue Queen, he keeps the action rapidly moving, following each solution to a problem with a greater, more complicated problem. The imaginary world of The Goblin Tower is filled with political intrigue and bizarre locales — tried and true elements for entertaining fans of sword-and-sorcery fiction.