His THE RATS IN THE WALLS is one of my favorite stories! Probably why they hate him because of what he named the
cat.
Wonder what they think of the adventure stories THE LOST GOD and Other Stories by John Russell that were printed in Magazines back in the 1910s and 1920s.
And I bet they absolutely HATE the name of the dog in THE DAM BUSTERS.
Oh, there's worse racism in some of his stories than that. And in real life he genuinely disliked blacks and Jews (notwithstanding briefly marrying a Jewish woman). None of which takes away from his stature as an author, of course, but the man was a bigot.