Ghoulia Yelps

"Everyone thinks I am so smart, but if I were really intelligent, I would carry an umbrella with me wherever I go."

-Ghoulia in her diary

Ghoulia Yelps is a zombie. She has a baby blue colored owl named Sir Hoots A Lot. She is the smartest girl at Monster High, although she only speaks "Zombie," a language only consisting of groans and moans. But all of her friends understand her because they took "Zombie 101" in school. She is a great Illustrator, as noted in Daydream of the Dead and loves graphic novels.

Personality
She is depicted as timid and shy. She's a huge bookworm and is very intelectual. Something of a trendy nerd, Ghoulia is the smartest girl in Monster High. It is revealed in her diary that she is good friends with Cleo de Nile because Cleo was willing to give her a chance, when zombies are typically discriminated against. Ghoulia can be unhappy with Cleo often though, like in the webisode Copy Canine, Cleo tells Clawdeen to copy from Ghoulia.

For a zombie she also has pretty good dexterity, possibly better than that of the non-zombie students, as she is shown creating elaborate designs out of string in New Ghoul @ School. She also seems to be a comic book enthusiast: according to the "Fearbook" she is a member of the comics club, and in the webisode Daydream of the Dead it is shown that she is a major fan of the comic book hero Dead Fast.

Portrayals
In the webisodes and Monster High movie New Ghoul @ School, Ghoulia's voice is provided by Audu Paden.

In the music video for the Monster High Fright Song, there are several character analogues who received creative interpretation by the video crew. The punk zombie girl is played by Cassandra Caccioppoli.

Physical Description
She has light blue hair and pale gray skin. Her appearance is very studious and she wears cat-eye, horn-rimmed "nerd" glasses. Because of her zombie heritage she has trouble with facial expressions and tends to slouch and stand in awkward positions. Her eyelids also blink one at a time, rather than at the same time.

Classic Monster
Ghoulia Yelps is the child of two zombies, possibly inspired by the films of zombie master George A. Romero.

Romero's first film about zombies was Night of the Living Dead , a low-budget, black and white film released in 1968. The story is about several people who are stuck in a rural farmhouse as the reanimated dead attack them.

The film was a huge hit because of its simple presentation and strong core concept, and it influenced many scary movies that came after it. The word "zombie" is never actually used in the 1968 film, nor is the reason for their reanimation ever revealed (though people on the television speculate about its cause).

One of the actors portraying a zombie in Night of the Living Dead was inspired by the saunter of Boris Karloff in one of his films.

The stylistic influence on Ghoulia is seen in that she shuffles instead of walks, and cannot speak except in "Zombie", which is moans and groans, though her classmates have taken rudimentary lessons in the language and can understand her. In one webisode, she opens her mouth and a fly comes out of it. One possible reason behind her inability to speak regular languages is an apparent poor lung capacity, as she is shown being unable to adequately blow a whistle in webisode Falling Spirits.

Also contrary to the stereotype of zombies being lethargic, Ghoulia is shown to be capable of writing with great speed. In Copy Canine, she fills out an entire test form in several seconds, thwarting Clawdeen from copying her. She can also run short periods of times like when she was running up to Cleo in Fear-A-Mid Power and running with the girls in Desperate Hours.

Family
Ghoulia lives with her parents, who are both zombies, though it's not stated what their house looks like. Only things known about them is that they're also pretty slow and they tend to be pretty hardnosed, as per their refusal to allow Ghoulia to go to her favorite comic convention. Ghoulia has a big sister and a little sister and brother who are all zombies.

Friends
Ghoulia is a girl who is friends with almost everyone. There seem to be two specific Monster High members she is especially close to. She is BFFs with Cleo de Nile, and they even plan their school schedules together. Although she has a tendency to let Cleo take advantage of her, on one occasion Ghoulia displays great joy at being able to get back at Cleo for stealing her science project by repeatedly dunking Cleo in Lagoona's "Rehydration Chamber" in Mad Science Fair.

Ghoulia and Frankie seem to connect on a sister-like level. This is showed in some webisodes. An example would be when Frankie tried to be her 'wing- ghoul' in Date of the Dead while Heath was hitting on her. After retreating to the bathroom, Ghoulia posed an idea to get Heath off her back. Others would be Bad Scare Day and A Bad Zituation.

Pet
Ghoulia's pet is a baby blue owl named Sir Hoots A Lot. However, he refuses to be Ghoulia's delivery owl.

Romance
Ghoulia has a crush on a boy named Slow-Moe. He's on the chess team and seems to be friends with Deuce Gorgon, Clawd Wolf and Heath Burns. She writes about him in her diary. The webisode Cyrano de Ghoulia, is about how they meet. They can be seen dancing together at the Justin "Biter" concert in New Ghoul @ School. They finally seem to start dating in Date of the Dead.

Ghoulia in the Monster High books
Ghoulia is not mentioned by name in the first book, but was thought to have been Bekka's mousy friend Hayley. The supplemental Chapter 13: Slow and Tell in the first book is all about Ghoulia. Cleo mentioned that she wasn't at the R.I.P. (RAD intel party) so she instead receives notes of what the party discussed from Mrs.Gorgon (Deuce's mother).

In the second book, Monster High: The Ghoul Next Door, she appears at one of Frankie's secret meetings, where she takes on the name of Julia Phelps. She seems to hold the same relationship with Cleo as she gave up seat for her and Cleo felt bad for talking bad about zombies in order to win Bekka's trust.

Julia is seen again in Monster High: Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way, being shown capable of simple English. She compliments Cleo on her hair at the RAD meeting right after the Ghoul Next Door video is shown, oblivious to rising tension. She also makes an appearance at Clawdeen's Sassy Sixteen, dancing with Bekka's former friends.

Ghoulia's Official Facebook Description
Ghoulia is the 16-year-old daughter of The Zombies (such an UHHH-mazing family)! Her trademark white, horn-rimmed glasses define her “geek chic” style. She may not be flashy but she doesn’t disappear into the zombie masses. The ghoul just can’t function without a schedule, and take my advice - don’t spring last minute changes on her. She might freak out! If you catch her in the halls, make sure to remember she walks rather slowly. Oh yeah, and if you have a hard time understanding her, it’s because she only speaks…UHHH…zombie! She also has a pet owl, Sir Hoots A Lot, who’s a total hoot.

Basic
Ghoulia wears a black, red and white striped off-the-shoulder shirt under a white camisole with a cherry pattern and red trim. She has fishnet arm warmers. She has a black and white piano belt with a square Monster High symbol belt buckle, which she wears with red strappy shorts and tie style knee-high heel boots. She wears white cat-eye glasses, pink zipper earrings and a green headband

Her outfit and cassette-tape style handbag has a retro-80's feel to them. Possibly as an homage to Michael Jackson in particular. One of his defining videos being "Thriller", which features zombies as the central premise. The retro theme also applies to her 1950's style eyewear and her 1960's style hairband. So it is suggested that Ghoulia has a fondness for "Old school" elements to her wardrobe.

Dawn of the Dance
Ghoulia's Dawn of the Dance outfit is a flowy white sleeveless "dip-dye" dress with a red-pink gradient at its hem, belted at the waist with a Monster High symbol belt. Her peep-toe heels are black and red, with the heel made of a bone. She wears red horn-rimmed glasses and red earrings, with a small necklace. Also her normally straight light blue hair is wavy in her Dawn of the Dance clothes. The doll comes with a red iCoffin and a red, black, and white purse.

Gloom Beach
Ghoulia's Swimsuit is a black, red, and white one piece suit. Her suit has a few similarities to Clawdeen's such as the fact that it's a jumpsuit type. Also she has a white belt with aqua polka-dots. She has red sunglasses, and black and red heels. She has white cross-bones earrings, a red jacket with black lining, and a red purse.

Dead Tired
Ghoulia wears a white shirt with red blood splaters and matching pants. She wears a black mini-skirt over her pants. Her glasses are red and so are her slippers. Her sleeping mask matches her shirt and pants. She comes with a bag of what looks like red popcorn, but is labeled "Brain Puffs". Her hair is worn in a ponytail in this set.

Comic Con Exclusive
Ghoulia Yelps is dressed as the comic character "Deadfast", and wears a black jumpsuit with red lining and the initials, DF. She has knee high superhero-style boots. She comes with a dead fast tote and comic. Her hair is worn down and, as tradition, she wears horn rimmed glasses.

Ghoul Spirit
Ghoulia wears a short zipped-up hoodie in the Monster High school colours with a red, brain-patterned top underneath, black shorts with a red trim and a silver belt. She wears long black socks and red shoes with a wedge heel with lightning bolt detailing. Her glasses also have a lightning bolt shape to them, in support of the MH team, and she wears a lightning bolt wristband in black and gold and pink skullette earrings. Her hair is worn up in a ponytail. She waves a foam finger and a Monster High flag.

School Clubs
Ghoulia is president of the comic club, she wears a black, red, and green Deadfast T-shirt, a white and red jean skirt with a brain pattern and net fringe on the hem. Her horn-rimmed glasses are green, she has red zipper earrings, a red hairband, and black and red hightops with green laces. Her outfit comes with a Deadfast action figure still in its case and a Deadfast comic.

Trivia

 * Ghoulia is ambidextrous.
 * Ghoulia is the only character that speaks in a monster-exclusive language, Zombie, but in Fear the Book she uses a Zombie to English translator for a non-zombie speaking student.
 * She was the first character to appear in the webisodes before her doll's release.
 * Although she is a zombie, Ghoulia's Classroom doll is in Phys-Ed and it is said she actually likes the class.
 * Ghoulia is a strong player at dodge ball.
 * Ghoulia acts as score keeper during casketball games played at home.
 * Ghoulia dreams to one day acquire a visitors card and use a time machine to visit the Library at Alexandria.
 * She is one of 6 ghouls who are part of the undead (the other 5 are Frankie, Cleo, Draculaura, Spectra, and Nefera), and out of which she and Spectra are the only ones with ages calculated in 'monster years'
 * Ghoulia can't jump.
 * As a joke Ghoulia says the likely truth to a rumor (about the reason they have a sub creature) that ends up being disgusting and then the other ghouls say ewww. Apparently it was so bad it had to be "censored" via Zombie.
 * She, Jackson, and Deuce are the only named Monster High students who wear glasses. Ghoulia is also the only named female to do so.
 * She is one of the few that don't have so edgy streaks on their hair, but only of a colour close to their natural one (the others are Clawdeen, Spectra, Holt, and Operetta).
 * She's the only Monster High character not to have only one favourite class. She says she can't choose just one.
 * She is also the only Monster High character not to have a least favourite class. She says she believes there's something to be learned from every class and mentions that even dodge ball teaches one to duck.


 * She's the only main Monster High character who can't speak a word of English, but only in her own language (zombie).
 * Ghoulia's blue hair may had been inspired by "Emily" the corpse bride from Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride".
 * She and Jackson are the only ones who dons geek chic.
 * Ghoulia is always leaning back probably because her spine is weak.
 * She and Operetta both love red, making them one of three pairs of characters to share a favorite color, the other two pairs being Cleo and Clawdeen (gold) and Toralei and Holt (orange).
 * Ghoulia is ever the responsible one by putting out fire hazards caused by Nightmare like in Frightday the 13th and Neferamore.
 * Ghoulia also keeps herself prepared for times she might need new glasses be it for functioning or fashioning. (Carries spares, has different rim colors for different outfits and some sports goggle-type glasses for Phys. Dead.)
 * Ghoulia is capable of letting out a soul-shattering scream like a banshee that can shatter glass.