Poe had an assistant editor who aided in corresponding with contributors, allowing him enough free time to write his own stories. Poe also had a decent relationship with Graham and took advantage of the editorial control he was granted. The magazine was the first to publish "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "A Descent into the Maelström", "The Island of the Fay", "The Mask Of The Red Death - A Fantasy", and others. He also reviewed Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Twice-Told Tales", and works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving and many others. He also further built up his reputation as a harsh literary critic, causing James Russell Lowell to suggest Poe sometimes mistook "his phial of prussic acid for his inkstand". With "Graham's", Poe also launched his "Literati of New York" series, which purportedly analyzes the signatures of well-known figures in the New York scene, but which featured Poe taking pot-shots at their personalities. "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in October 1841 called Poe's article "the most singular, and at the same time, the most interesting article" in the magazine.