[Meglobob]

In a recent MP, I used lots of lightless lanterns and they are definately worth it for research (helped win me the game), in those 50 turns I had 2 horror attacks, the mages died both times. They were a horror and lesser horror. About dozen of my mages out of about 50 with lightless lanterns ended up horror marked.

I used my cheapest/weakest mages to carry the lightless lanterns, I was playing LA Agartha, so not much of a loss if 1 dies to a horror attack.

Another option but mircromanagement intensive, so not for everybody, is check each mage every turn for horror marking, as soon as he becomes horror marked pass the lantern on to another mage (so not to lose it when he gets attacked by a horror), then use that mage up in combat, hopefully before he dies due to horror.

Another suggestion, but I have not personally used this tactic as yet, is if your mage is a death mage, you could cast twiceborn, so if a horror kills him you get a wightmage. The question is does the wightmage retain the horror marking?