The Vampire Diaries premiered in 2009.
==== Asia ====Vampires have appeared in Japanese cinema since the late 1950s; the folklore behind it is western in origin
 Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla

