Five of the Best: Scary grannies

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Look, I can neither confirm nor deny that my grandmother was scary. My dad says she was, but all I remember are the 20 pence pieces she used to save and give to us, and the homemade chips she used to make. She didn't seem so mean to me. But grandmothers get a bad rep; you don't hear half so many stories about creepy grandpas, and I wonder why that is. I asked the internet this afternoon and it pointed to Eastern European legend Baba Yaga and Japanese legend Yama Uba as examples of how the stereotype runs deep. Maybe it's because the mother is traditionally such an important figure in families that subverting that trust with a dollop of evil works so well. Whatever the reason, scary grannies have long been a figure in legend and therefore fiction, and now games. The question is, which games have the best scary grannies in them?