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* The villain of [[James Thurber]]'s juvenile fantasy ''The White Deer'' is named Nagrom Yaf.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Early in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', a very punctual milkman by the name of Ronnie Soak is introduced as a minor character. However, once the plot truly gets underway, his true nature is revealed: he is Kaos, the fifth Horseman of the Apocralypse (not a typo), who [[The Beatles (band)|left before the other four became famous]]. Pratchett himself had not planned it that way, at least consciously. The story goes he'd planned for him to be the fifth horseman, but hadn't figured out what he would be, until he looked at the name in the mirror.
** ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'':
{{quote|''It's a sad and terrible thing that high-born folk really have thought that the servants would be totally fooled if spirits were put into decanters that were cunningly labelled ''backwards''. And also throughout history the more politically conscious butler has taken it on trust, and with rather more justification, that his employers will not notice if the yksihw is topped up with eniru.''}}
** The Discworld concept of being "knurd"—so sober that you actually need an alcoholic beverage or two to be normal.
** Another example, this time as a parody of "Erewhon/Nehwon": an area in the Hublands called "Ecalpon".
** The town of Llamedos, which is "Sod'em all" backwards, and is itself a reference to the Welsh town of Llareggub in ''Under Milk Wood''.
** ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'': The narration describes vampires' apparent inability to compensate for their well-known weaknesses, and at one point says "Do they really think spelling their name backwards is going to fool anyone?"
** In ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]'', the Ankh-Morpork City Watch's new vampire recruit Salacia sends a "clacks" (a sort of [[Punk Punk|clock-punk]] version of a telegram) using the alias "Aicalas". The normally practical and intelligent vampire Salacia von Humpeding suffers from the curse of her kind : the deep and abiding conviction that ''[[Alucard|no one will recognise your name if you spell it backwards]]''. Of course, Vimes instantly sees through that, mentionning it as one of the vampires' lesser-known failings.
* The eponymous country in ''Erewhon'' by Samuel Butler is an almost-reversal of "nowhere". (An exact reversal would be "Erehwon".) This is a reference to "Utopia", which means "nowhere". The inhabitants (for the most part) have names like Senoj Nosnibor.
* On a similar note, the world of Fritz Leiber's ''[[Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser]]'' tales is Nehwon.
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