Ehhh... I think Twitter made that one bigger than it is. The books talk about horrors from outer space and people breeding/mixing with that, and use that to create a scary/tense atmosphere, so yeah there'll be dislike for that. Also: some of the stories are set within a timeframe/period where that was the way people looked at the world.
It would be superweird to have someone travel by carriage or steam train through what's supposed to be much like the 'real world' otherwise, yet this person holds all the believes and prejudices of a present day liberal/left-leaning political person!