Noppera Typeface

These mysterious yōkai are encountered on quiet, empty roads late at night when nobody else is around. Like many yōkai of this kind, their main activity seems to be scaring humans. This they do remarkably well. 

Noppera-bō usually appear in the guise of a man or a woman with his or her back turned towards the observer. When approached, the yōkai turns around and reveals its terrifying true form. To maximize the effect, they often appear with a face at first, and then wipe their face off dramatically with their hand at the most opportune time. The ghostly Noppera-bō revel in the terror they inflict upon their unsuspecting victims. 

Noppera-bō often work together in groups to scare one individual. As their victim runs away in a panic from the first noppera-bō, he runs into another person who asks him what is wrong. When the victim explains what he saw, this person replies, “Oh, you mean like this?” and wipes 
his face away exactly like the first noppera-bō. They are even known to impersonate close relatives of their victims, and sometimes a poor man will run all the way home, having run into multiple faceless ghosts, only to tell his wife what he saw and have her reply, “Oh, you mean 
like this?…”